11:30 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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Governor Jeff Landry is back in our nation’s capital to attend Washington Mardi Gras events. Landry was also in D-C last weekend for pre-inauguration festivities and planned to stay in Washington for the entire week, but the winter storm forced him to return to Louisiana for a few days.

State Police say a Hammond woman died a day after the snowstorm when she crashed head-on into a pickup truck driven by a Mississippi man who was allegedly impaired. Trooper Marc Gremillion says the two-vehicle crash occurred on Louisiana Highway 22 in Ponchatoula and 65-year-old Peggy Williams did not survive…

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Kody Lacour of Picayune, Mississippi, has been charged with First Offense DWI.

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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