7:30 LRN Newscast

What are the state’s chances of prevailing in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in defense of the Ten Commandments law? Andrew Greenstein reports, not that good.

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Shreveport Police have identified a possible suspect in Wednesday’s fatal shooting of a pharmaceutical rep in the parking lot of a Walgreen’s. They are asking for the public’s help in locating Larry Lewis, who is considered armed and dangerous. The victim has been identified as 67-year-old Billy Jamison, a father of four and the sole caretaker of his own father in his 90s.

Bill Cassidy’s re-election campaign has announced Louisiana’s Senior U-S Senator raised another one-million dollars in the fourth quarter of 2024 and now has more than six-point-five million dollars on hand. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says the goal for Cassidy is ten-million dollars…

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Cassidy already has one challenger for the 2026 Senate race. Former Congressman and current Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming.

This week’s winter storm gave us icy roads, busted water pipes and cabin fever, but we didn’t see a lot of power outages. The peak outage total for Entergy Louisiana was 65-hundred. Vice president of reliability at Entergy, Jason Willis, says they had extra personnel on hand, more than 27-hundred to be specific…

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Still have major road closures. I-10 and I-55 in the New Orleans area, along with U-S 90 in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.