11:30 LRN Newscast June 4

Those who’ve been vaccinated will be able to visit Louisiana’s 21 state parks and 18 historic sites for free through July 31st.

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Two Louisiana men are facing contest fraud after the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries investigated tips the men caught bass fish before the tournament started. Hunter Moss of Mooringsport and Phillip Purcell of Oil City admitted to retrieving three bass and kept them alive in a basket off a dock in Caddo Parish. Contest fraud brings a $3,000 fine and one year in jail.

With just shy of a week left in the legislative session there are still a few loose ends to tie up. LaPolitics.com publisher Jeremy Alford says lawmakers still have some major gaming-related bills to finish.

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The Slidell casino vote recently escaped a Senate committee it had been stuck in for weeks and is headed to the Senate floor.

A Baton Rouge nurse is on a mission to vaccinate two thousand people by July 4th. Carla Brown’s husband died from the virus last year after she unknowingly brought COVID into her home. Brown says so far, she’s vaccinated nearly one-thousand people…

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Only 32-percent of Louisianans are fully vaccinated, one of the lowest percentages in the country