3:30 LRN Newscast Oct 27

A skirmish with cops that happened last Friday night at a high school football game in Franklin Parish has resulted in Carroll High Coach Brandon Landers and 8 of his staff suspended for the rest of the season. Game announcer Matt Reynolds says the fracas broke out late in the game…:

CUT 06(12)      “…the stands.”

Archaeologists are asking people going to visit a century old shipwreck exposed by low Mississippi River waters at Baton Rouge to please look but do not touch. Scientists say some sightseers are taking pieces of the “Brookhill” with them when they leave the sight. They ask you take nothing from the site and leave only your footprints. Under normal river conditions the “Brookhill” wreck is under 6 or more feet of water.

 

Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre says his detectives are searching for a Larose man allegedly connected with two drug overdoses this week; one of them fatal. 18-year-old Blayne Terrebonne is wanted for dealing drugs. A 15-year-old girl is dead and a 16-year-old boy ism in the hospital, and deputies say they got the drugs from Terrebonne. They’ll take tips on his whereabouts at 985-532-4320.

Louisiana’s winningest college basketball coach, Mike McConathy, officially launches his run for the state legislature at an event tonight. District 31 senator Louie Bernard is not seeking re-election, and McConathy says he’s running for the office. LSU Shreveport political science Professor Jeff Sadow says he is so well-known in that area as a coach that should help the 66-year-old Republican…:

CUT 13(09)      “…advantage.”