6:30 LRN Newscast March 3

Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser says he’ll once again push for legislation this year that would designate the historic New Orleans French Quarter as a state park. Nungesser believes the move would reduce crime…
cut 10 (10) “….do something”
Nungesser says New Orleans crime problem is hurting the city’s tourism effort and points to two tourists who were fatally shot while in New Orleans for the Mardi Gras weekend. Those two shootings did not occur in the French Quarter.

President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson has begun meeting with Senators as she could become the first female black justice on the nation’s highest court. Southern University Student Bar Association President Nzhada (Nih-jay-da) Harris says the historic possibility has inspired the next generation of the Black legal community…
cut 7 (11) “….going to do”

A former LSU basketball player – now living in Ukraine – describes the situation there under a Russian invasion. More from Kevin Gallagher…:
Cut 1 (33) “…I’m Kevin Gallagher.”