7:30 AM LRN Newscast

Governor Landry has called a special session to adjust the calendar for the 2026 election cycle as the Supreme Court takes up the case on the state’s congressional districts. The plan is to move the calendar back 30 days La Polictics dot com publisher, Jeremy Alford says it won’t be easy.

Cut 8 (10) “…support for that.”

 

Assumption Parish Sheriff Leland Falcon was grazed by a bullet Thursday in while responding to a shooting in a Pierre Part neighborhood. He found a victim, a neighbor of the suspect, wounded in a front yard. The sheriff found and confronted a suspect behind a house nearby and the suspect opened fire grazing the Falcon. The suspect was then shot. Both the first victim and the suspect were transported to hospitals. Authorities say Sheriff Falcon is okay. State Police are investigating and say Falcon did not fire at the suspect.

An area on the LSU campus that was the site of one of the two shootings last weekend will now be off-limits for the remainder of the football season. Andre Champagne reports.

Cut 1 (33) “…I’m Andre Champagne.”

 

The Tigers will be in Nashville to take on Vanderbilt tomorrow. Two starters on defense could miss the game. Coach Brian Kelly…

Cut 13 (08)  “…Gooden is doubtful.”

Linebacker Whit Weeks and defensive tackle Bernard Gooden are starters on LSU’s defense. Weeks’ ankle that had offseason surgery on it is bothering him, and Gooden has an injured collarbone.