6:30 AM Newscast

If you don’t have your hurricane preparedness kit put together for this year, this weekend would be a very good weekend to shop for those essentials. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says now that we’re into late August, the peak of hurricane season is rapidly approaching.

Cut 10 (09) “…six weeks.”

A close call for a 15-year-old Lake Charles girl, as she escapes a would-be kidnapper at a bus stop. Lake Charles Police Lieutenant Brenda Treadway…

Cut 7 (12) “…drive by her.”

Treadway says around the third or fourth time he passed by her, 35-year-old Dustin Frederick stopped, got approached the girl and told the girl she needed a ride, but she fought back, punching him in the face at which time he fled the scene.

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The SEC is moving to a nine-game conference schedule in football next season and LSU is excited about it. Jeff Palermo has the story…

Cut 3 (30) “…I’m Jeff Palermo.”

The Nicholls State football team will host one of its biggest games in Thibodeaux ever tomorrow. The Colonels face the fourth-ranked Incarnate Word Cardinals, and the game will be nationally televised on ESPN2. Athletic director Jonathan Terrell (tuh-RELL)…

Cut 4 (09) “…be showcased.”

Kick off tomorrow is at noon.