2:30 LRN Newscast May 13

A Biden administration decision on oil and gas lease sales is receiving harsh criticism from the petroleum industry. David Grubb has more…:

CUT 02(40)      “…David Grubb.”

Three Louisianans are dead and several others injured, after a wrong-way driver on I-40 in Arkansas plowed into a group of motorcyclists Thursday. Arkansas State Police say the victims are a married couple from Slidell and a woman from Terrytown.

 

Thursday’s debate on Oil City Representative Danny McCormick’s bill to charge a woman who has an abortion with murder is met with questions of fallout from the issue among the Republican Party in Louisiana. “LAPolitics.com” publisher Jeremy Alford says it was republicans who amended the legislation and pointed out the bill could also punish those who use in-vitro fertilization, and that the bill in its original form is unconstitutional…:

CUT 03(10)      “…those amendments.”

He says the bill was something on which GOP and Democrats could easily agree.

If the skies aren’t cloudy Sunday night, we could all see a total lunar eclipse. LSU Astronomy professor Jeff Clayton says these events were one-upon-a-time considered harbingers of something bad…:

CUT 14(12)      “…as the Babylonians”

He says the eclipse should start around 9:30 Sunday evening.