8:30 LRN Newscast

Jeff Landry holds a 10 AM press conference where it’s expected the first-year governor will lay out plans for tax reform. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says there could be a November special session on tax reform. He says it’s an issue difficult for the public to understand, but the governor will make the case it needs to be done to improve Louisiana’s economy…

Cut 6 (11) …tied to that.”

Rolling Stone has published a profile on Governor Landry and the story calls Landry’s America’s most extreme governor, and the Republican from St. Martin Parish is poised to pick up the MAGA flag. ULM Political Science Professor Joshua Stockley…

Cut 15 (14) “…to the wayside”

It also quotes sources who believe President Trump, if elected, would appoint Landry as U.S. attorney general.

An intense investigation is underway in Tangipahoa Parish where the body of 69-year-old William Nicholas Abraham was found Sunday morning along Highway 51, wrapped up in a tarp. Abraham is a therapist from Baton Rouge and Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Gerald Sticker says they are leaving no stone unturned…

Cut 11 (10) “…up to his death”

Sticker has released a person of interest and photos of this person can be seen on the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Facebook page.

Today is the 100th birthday of former President Jimmy Carter. Carter served from 1977 to 1981 and is viewed by many to be America’s greatest ex-president through his work with Habitat for Humanity and other humanitarian causes, including fighting disease all over the world. Democratic Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell…

Cut 8 (13) “…cured night blindness.”