8:30 LRN Newscast September 18

Bars in a limited number of parishes have begun inviting patrons back for the first time in months. Matt Doyle has the story.
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As you heard Matt say, restaurants and bars that are allowed to open must serve its last drink by 11 PM. When the Phase 3 order came out last week, 10 PM was last call, but Edwards has announced he’s giving these establishments another hour. Bars must still close at 11 PM.

Sad news report, Remy Hidalgo, the Denham Springs football player who collapsed during practice on Tuesday has died at a New Orleans hospital.

The first day of Fall is Tuesday and it will feel more like fall starting today as a cold front moves through the state, which will lower our temperatures and humidity. But there’s also a Tropical Depression in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. State Climatologist Barry Keim says the forecast models have this system eventually growing into a hurricane, but a Texas landfall seems most likely at this point…
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LSU legends Mahmoud Abdul Rauf and Glenn Dorsey are entering the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame as they will go in as the Class of 2021. Hall of Fame Chairman Doug Ireland says Dorsey was a two-time All American and SEC Defensive Player of the Year in 2007…
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The Saints all-time receiver Marques Colston will also be enshrined in June.