7:30 LRN Newscast January 6

U-S Senator John Kennedy and Southwest Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins have said they will vote against certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. Kennedy is pushing for the formation of a commission to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the results in the disputed states. But Democrat and Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell says Congressmen who vote against certifying know what they are doing is wrong…
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Kennedy is up for re-election next year.

A United Health Foundation report finds that from 2014 to 2019 there was a 16-percent increase in public health funding, 91-dollars per person in Louisiana, which ranks us 26th in the country. United Chief Medical Officer Rhonda Randall…
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Beginning next fall more high school juniors and seniors will have the option to “Fast Forward” their education. Brooke Thorington explains.
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Former Amite High Standout and Alabama wide receiver Devonta Smith won the Heisman Trophy last night. He’s only the second Louisiana native to win the prestigious award. Springhill native John David Crow won the award in 1957 after a standout season as a halfback for Paul Bear Bryant at Texas A-and-M