8:30 AM LRN Newscast

New Orleans will be able to submit a bid to host a Super Bowl in 2031, despite missing the official deadline to submit its proposal last fall. Jeff Palermo has more.

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And a Louisiana state-chartered bank is expanding services in Lafayette with a groundbreaking ceremony set for Monday in River Ranch. Red River Bank will break ground on its new banking center at 1800 Camellia Boulevard there.Officials say this will be the bank’s second full-service location in Acadiana.

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The CDC this week announced a revised vaccine schedule for children. Under the new schedule, vaccines for polio and measles remain on the list of recommended vaccines. But those for the flu, COVID, Hepatitis A & B and others have been moved to the shared decision-making list.  Senator Dr. Bill Cassidy says the effects of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rhetoric are already taking hold.

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By now, we’ve all heard that Louisiana’s moving to closed party primaries this year.  And now the primaries, which were set to happen in April, have been moved to May 16th. Secretary of State Nancy Landry says she and her office have done a great deal of outreach to get the word out about the change in advance of the primaries.

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Qualifying will take place February 11th through the 13th.