8:30 LRN Newscast December 15

Governor Edwards is moving forward with plans to require the COVID-vaccine shot for children to attend school. A helicopter pilot is dead after his chopper crashed on the I-10 Bonnet Carre Spillway yesterday. Lafayette Judge Michelle Odinet is in hot water after a video surfaced that shows people inside her home using the “N” word.

Senator Bill Cassidy met with the media yesterday and talked about the President’s Build Back Better bill. Kevin Gallager has more…
cut 1 (34) “…I’m Kevin Gallagher”

Most of the state’s lawmakers are in Lake Charles today for the annual Legisgator luncheon and will be seeing billboards urging the legislature to help Louisiana craft brewers catch up with the rest of the nation. Cary Koch is executive director of the Louisiana Craft Brewers Guild:
Cut 10 (12) “…host weddings.”
Koch fears that without craft beer reform in the Bayou State, the struggling industry could be here today and gone tomorrow.

The U-S Post Office says today is the last day to send packages via retail ground to arrive before Christmas Day. USPS spokesperson David Walton says the deadline to send a package by Priority Mail is Saturday and cost-wise he says it’s still a bargain…
cut 8 (06) “….70 pounds”
Walton says procrastinators, they can use Priority Mail express as late as December 23rd and still have their gift arrive by Christmas Day.