9:30 LRN Newscast March 30

LSU Football Coach Ed Orgeron spoke publically for the first time today since 74-year-old Gloria Scott told state lawmakers that former Tigers running back Derius Guice sexually harassed her in 2017 while working as a Superdome security guard. Scott said she spoke to Orgeron about the incident, but Coach O says he does not recall speaking to Scott
Cut 3 (08) “…her courage”
Orgeron made the comments on ESPN 104-5 in Baton Rouge.

A new report from The Zerba, an insurance comparison site, shows women in this state on average pay 68-dollars a year more than men for auto insurance. Real Reform Louisiana Executive Director Eric Holl says it’s even worse for Louisiana women in their 50s…
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Holl says there is legislation filed in the upcoming session to address this issue.

Loyola University Law Professor Andrea Armstrong has received grant dollars to create a database of inmate deaths that occurred at all Louisiana prisons. Armstrong says 80-percent of US prisons go a full calendar year without an inmate death, she says with this database, we can measure how Louisiana prisons stack up…
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Armstrong hopes to provide more data later this spring.

St. Tammany Parish Coroner Doctor Charles Preston says his office investigated five infant fatalities last year that were the result of unsafe sleeping conditions. Preston is encouraging families to follow their A-B-Cs…
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Preston says infant death by unsafe sleeping conditions is not unique to St. Tammany Parish but is a problem nationwide.