9:30 am Newscast

People across the country are still talking about Thursday’s presidential debate. Mel Bridges has the details from Tulane Associate Professor of Political Science Brian Brox.

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Congressmen Troy Carter and Clay Higgins have introduced bipartisan legislation to protect Americans from contaminated seafood. He says He says the bill protects consumers and Louisiana Seafood farmers who are following the safety guidelines.

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A secret indictment handed up by a Caddo Parish grand jury Thursday accuses a Shreveport man of manslaughter in the shooting death of a 12 year old in May. 32 year old Kelvin Boles was arrested by Shreveport police Friday. Boles is accused in the deadly shooting of Jaylen Coleman who was reportedly breaking into Boles’ car outside his home in the 8900 block of Hawthorne Drive on May 11.

A former U-L Lafayette softball hero is headed back home to lead the Cajuns as head coach. That announcement came yesterday. Alyson Habetz helped lead the Cajuns to the Women’s College World Series in 1993 and won a national championship in 2012 as Alabama’s associate head coach. She takes over a program that’s dominated the Sun Belt Conference but has not been to the W-C-W-S since 2014…

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