1:30 LRN Newscast

PETA is speaking out against plans for a live tiger to be trotted onto the field before tomorrow night’s LSU game. Klayton Rutherford with the PETA foundation says tigers do not belong in 100-thousand-seat football stadiums.

Cut 4 (11) “…drop this idea.”

The tiger is a Bengal being brought in from Florida. It’s owned by a man named Mitchel Kalmanson, who PETA says has more than three-dozen USDA violations since 2000.

Several Black people across the country, including here in Louisiana, have been receiving hate-filled spam text messages referencing slavery. State Attorney General Liz Murrill says her investigators have traced the messages to an encrypted virtual network in Poland. But she says that doesn’t necessarily pinpoint the perpetrator there.

Cut 15 (05) “…to investigate it.”

The GOP Leadership election is set for next week and with House control still not clear, Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise push to secure their leadership roles in the House.

Cut 2 (34) “…I’m Sean Richardson.”

Could Governor Landry be headed to Washington after just a year as governor? The New York Post is reporting that former President and President-elect Donald Trump is considering Landry for U.S. Attorney General, citing his involvement in a lawsuit that claimed that the Biden administration worked to silence conservative voices on social media.