11:30 LRN Newscast

Police in Minden are investigating the death of a toddler inside a home. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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A Jefferson Parish jury took less than an hour to convict Bunnak Landon of first degree murder in the brutal death of six-year-old Bella Fontenelle of Harahan. Landon killed her boyfriend’s child and left her body in a buck on the child’s mother’s front lawn. Landon claimed she was insane at the time of the crime.

The Louisiana Legislature is debating a comprehensive nutrition bill that, among other things, would ban SNAP recipients from using their benefits to buy soft drinks Governor Jeff Landry is not waiting for that bill to reach his desk….

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The only real power the executive order has is that it directs the Department of Children and Family Services to request a waiver from the USDA to prohibit food stamp recipients from buying soda and candy.

If you are a crawfish lover than head over the Breaux Bridge Crawfish Fest in St. Martin Parish. Publicity Director Angelique Bernard says mudbugs will be prepared in many different ways and there’s more than just crawfish…

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The Breaux Bridge Crawfish Fest runs through Sunday.