8:30 LRN Newscast

Saturday begins early voting and this week in our morning newscasts we’ve been featuring the six main candidates running for governor. Republican John Schroder has he wants to improve education and lower crime and two ways to do that…
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Schroder says he also wants to create a better tax and regulatory atmosphere to bring bigger businesses to the Bayou State.

906 people died on Louisiana’s roads last year in crashes which is a seven percent decrease from 2021. That’s according to statistics compiled by a research team at LSU. So why the decrease? Louisiana Highway Safety Commission spokesperson Greg Fischer says traffic volume increased in 2022 …
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Fisher says in 2022 there was an eight-percent increase in DWI arrests.

A first in Louisiana tonight as a high school football game in Baton Rouge will have an all-female officiating crew. Teiko Foxx has the story…
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A LHSAA member meeting will take place Tuesday to give high school principals an opportunity to decide how a select school should be defined. A ruling by a judge earlier this year prohibits the LHSAA from using the current definition. Because of this uncertainty, it’s unknown how the school football playoff brackets will look.