7:30 LRN Newscast

The 481 workers set to lose their jobs due to the shutdown of International Paper Red River mill in Campti can receive help from the Louisiana Workforce Commission’s Rapid Response Team

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Hockey in New Orleans? ESPN’s Kevin Weekes reports a group met with NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly about bringing an expansion team to New Orleans. It’s unknown who from the state of Louisiana met with the National Hockey League. The New Orleans Brass, a minor league hockey team, was the last professional hockey team to play in the Big Easy and that was 2002.

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy voted to confirm Robert F Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, as the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, but he doesn’t like the Louisiana’s Department of Health’s new policy of no more mass vaccination events. Cassidy says LDH’s announced policy on immunizations ignores the reality of people’s lives…

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Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham says a decision to get a vaccine should be made between a patient and their personal doctor.

A trial date of July 7th has been set for suspended LSU running back Trey Holly. Holly faces charges for his alleged role in a shooting that wounded two people. That shooting occurred just over a year ago in his hometown of Farmerville. Holly’s attorney, Mike Small, says having a trial 17 months after an event like that is normal…

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