4:30 LRN Newscast

Putting to rest months of speculation, East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore says he will not run for governor. Moore, who is a registered Democrat, has served as Baton Rouge’s prosecutor for 14 years. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says Moore didn’t have much of a chance with DOTD Secretary Shawn Wilson expected to get in…

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Wilson, a Democratic from Lafayette is expected to his candidacy for Governor soon.

 

State and local officials were on hand today for the grand opening of SOWELA’s $10.8M State-of-the-art Culinary, Gaming, and Hospitality Training Center in Lake Charles. SOWELA Chancellor Dr. Neil Aspinwall says with three big casinos in Lake Charles a facility to train the workers is needed…

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Funding for the facility was approved by Governor John Bel Edwards and the state legislature in 2018.

 

A campus-wide internet outage continues to frustrate students and faculty at SouthEastern University campus. UL -System President Dr. Jim Henderson says the ability to isolate and restore the school’s internet system is a testament to the Information Technology team responsible for their ability to rectify the outage.

Cut 13 (12) “…uncovered.”

A timeline of when the school’s computer system is expected to be restored has not been released.