11:30 LRN Newscast

LSU women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey has blasted Los Angeles Times writer Ben Bolch for describing the Lady Tigers as villains and dirty debutantes. Coach Kim Mulkey called the column sexist…
cut 12 (15) “…I’m sorry”
Bolch made the bold statements because of Mulkey’s rant against the Washington Post and Angel Reese’s history of trash talking. The L-A Times edited the column after it was published saying it did not meet the Times editorial standards.

ASAP, the Louisiana-based food delivery company formally known as Waitr, announced its closure over the weekend. UNO business professor Mark Rosa says in the business world there are winners and losers and the combination of COVID, rising inflation, and interest rates is creating more losers.
Cut 3 (12) “…out of business.”
Waitr originated in Lake Charles in 2013 then moved operations to Lafayette in 2016.

House Natural Resources approves a bill to raise fees on Louisiana processors and distributors who import foreign seafood. Colleen Crain reports the additional dollars will help fund a state program that tests imported seafood…
Cut 2 (32) “I’m Colleen Crain.”

An investigation has resulted in the arrest of a former State Trooper who allegedly mishandled two drunk driving crashes in St. Tammany Parish last April. 56-year-old Brett Dupre has been charged with malfeasance in office and filing false public records. L-S-P says because of Dupre’s false crash reports, two suspected impaired drivers were not taken into custody.