8:30 AM LRN Newscast

Who Dat nation is rejoicing as Drew Brees is voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Jeff Palermo has the story.

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#25 Central Methodist defeated #1 LSU Shreveport 4-3 to snap the all time college baseball consecutive win streak at 65.  The Pilots ast los was against Kansas Wesleyan in May of 2024.

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Construction is getting underway on the Donaldsonville campus in the River Parish Community College system. Chancellor Quintin Taylor says for the first three to four years after it opens in 2028, the campus in Ascension Parish will be used specifically to train workers for the new Hyundai Steel mill, until it fills all 13-hundred jobs.

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Moderna and Merck have recently announced that a vaccine they’re working on to treat melanoma is showing lasting benefits for patients, and it could eventually be a game-changer in the treatment of all types of cancer. Dr. Kyle Holen, the head of development of oncology and therapeutics at Moderna, says the vaccine uses the same mRNA technology as the COVID vaccine.

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