7:30 LRN Newscast

What a game last night as Tommy White blasted a two run homer over the left field wall in the 11th inning to give the Tigers a two to nothing win over Wake Forest. The victory puts LSU in the championship series of the C-W-S. Coach Jay Johnson says it was an unbelievable moment….
cut 30 (06) “…of our team”
The best out of three championship series against Florida begins Saturday.

The NCAA has finally put to bed a four-year investigation into the LSU football and men’s basketball programs that looked into alleged recruiting violations and impressible benefits. Both programs will be on probation for the next three years, but no future postseason bans. Former LSU men’s basketball coach Will Wade has been suspended for 10 games at his new school McNeese State. Tiger Rag Editor Todd Horne says the Cowboys already planned to suspend him for the first five games…
cut 8 (10) “….two years”
These decisions are final and can not be appealed.
Ochsner Health and MD Anderson Cancer Center have partnered to create the Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center in southeast Louisiana. Medical director Dr. Brian Moore says this means cancer patients in the region will have access to treatments that are among the most advanced in the country.
Cut 4 (10) “…people’s lives.”
The first phase of the partnership includes six facilities in the New Orleans area, Baton Rouge, and Covington.

Next week Governor John Bel Edwards is expected to get his veto pen out, but will lawmakers choose to convene a special session to override any of them? Denham Springs Representative Valarie Hodges says lawmakers need to come back if Edwards vetoes bills banning gender transition care for minors, affirming the use of students’ birth pronouns, and forbidding discussion with students of gender preference of sexual behavior…:
Cut 13 (07) “…very important bills.”
Edwards says the ban on gender affirming care picks on a small group of minorities who are the state’s most vulnerable, fragile, children in our state.