9:30 LRN Newscast September 14

Hurricane Florence has moved on land and we are seeing significant flooding along the North Carolina coast and more is expected in the inland areas of the Carolinas. LSU Geography and Anthropology Professor Craig Colten says those that evacuated inland, may have inadvertently traveled into areas at risk for flooding…
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Over one million people were ordered to evacuate.

LSU heads to Auburn today for their SEC West showdown tomorrow on the Plains. Connor Ferrill has a preview…
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The US Supreme Court will hear a case from Louisiana on October first that pits a landowner in St. Tammany Parish against environmentalists who are attempting to protect the dusky gopher frog. There’s only about 100 of these frogs still in existence and the Center for Biological Diversity attorney Collette Adkins says a portion of land in St. Tammany is a place where the frog can live…
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The landowner in St. Tammany wants to develop the land, but the US Wildlife and Fisheries says he can’t because its critical habitat.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says a Winnsboro man had roadkill in the cooler of his restaurant and then took it home to butcher it. 61-year-old Somchanh Chanthapanya was cited for possession of a spotted fawn. Agents says the man said he found the fawn on the side of the highway as roadkill and put it in his cooler at the Garden Hen restaurant. He then took it home after a sheriff’s deputy spotted the baby deer in the cooler during a security check.