8:30 LRN newscast

President Trump’s impeachment trial begins today in the US Senate. This afternoon Senators will vote on rules that will govern the trial. Once testimony begins each Senator will serve as a juror. Senator Bill Cassidy…
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Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson has been appointed to President Trump’s impeachment team.

An American Heart Association study finds that one in four high school students use e-cigarettes and the number of middle school students using e-cigarettes increased nearly 50-percent last year. Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Tobacco Specialist Josh Pitre says they surveyed over 3-thousand teens and found parents who are more educated do a better job of explaining the harmful risks of e-cigarettes…
cut 12 (10) “…are harmful’

The Indian Mounds at LSU may be much, much older than previously thought. Matt Doyle has the story.
Cut 1 (30) “I’m Matt Doyle”

Due to a water outage, classes are canceled at Grambling State University today. A water line broke and repairs are ongoing.

Former LSU defensive coordinator and current Youngstown State head coach Bo Pelini has surfaced as a possible replacement for Dave Aranda, who just took the head coaching job at Baylor. Pelini was LSU’s D-C for three seasons and helped the Tigers win a national title in 2007.