8:30 AM LRN Newscast

LSU’s playoff hopes are all but over after Saturday’s performance. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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New Orleans police are investigating the death of a 69-year-old man whose body was found with multiple bruises yesterday morning around seven.  Police have ruled the case a homicide. The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office is investigating the cause of death.

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The Louisiana Board of Regents is developing the new Louisiana Opportunity Index.  Louisiana met its goal of awarded 85-thousand postsecondary annual credentials four years early, but the index works to make sure those achievements translate to real opportunities. Reed says the index is designed to make sure officials are measuring things that matter.

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LSU will soon begin a 440-thousand-dollar preservation project to restore the iconic Native American mounds located on campus. The man-made mounds are thousands of years old, but are suffering from erosion. LSU campus landscape architect Dennis Mitchell says the preservation work will address mound erosion an add a new irrigation system.

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