5:30 LRN Newscast Mar 4

According to USA Today, former LSU head football coach Les Miles was accused of texting female students, taking them to his condo alone, making them feel uncomfortable and on at least one occasion kissing a student. After the 2013 sexual harassment probe Miles was barred from having one-on-one contact with female students.

State Police is investigating a fatal police shooting in Abbeville that also resulted in a deputy getting shot. Trooper Thomas Gossen says a Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s deputy attempted to serve a protective custody to 41-year-old Dwight Brown when Brown began firing. Neighbors told K-A-T-C-TV Brown was a veteran who suffered from P-T-S-D. Gossen says an order of protective custody is usually associated with mental evaluations.

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33 Louisiana Republican lawmakers urge Governor John Bel Edwards to join Texas and Mississippi in dropping the mask mandate. Governor Edwards has indicated the mandate will likely be one of the last public health orders to go because of how effective it is and the fact that it doesn’t have an economic impact but House GOP Caucus Chairman Blake Miguez says it is no longer necessary.

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Three farmers will be inducted into the Louisiana Agriculture Hall of Distinction during a ceremony tonight co-hosted by the Louisiana Radio Network. LRN Farm Director Don Molino says one of the inductees is longtime Louisiana Farm Bureau President Ronnie Anderson…
cut 12 (09) “….150-thousand today”