8:30 AM LRN Newscast

LSU baseball has tied a program high for the most SEC losses in one season. Jeff Palermo has the story.

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Looks like the Senate Governmental Affairs committee will vote earlier than expected on a new congressional map for Louisiana.  Originally set for tomorrow, that meeting’s been moved up to after the full Senate adjourns today.  Options on the table include one majority black district or none, even as Democrats continue to push for two.

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Over the next five days, watch TV or listen to the radio at your own risk. That’s because you’ll be bombarded with some of the dirtiest campaign ads in the Republican U.S. Senate race, with the primary election Saturday. ULM Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says Bill Cassidy, John Fleming and Julia Letlow are going negative, because history has shown that negative campaigning works…so they’re all trying to put distance between their opponents and President Trump.

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For the first time ever, Louisiana will have a recreational alligator hunting season. That after Governor Jeff Landry signed Senate Bill 244 into law.  The bill’s author is Franklin Senator Robert Allain, commercial hunting can’t keep up with the growing alligator population and gators that are turning up in neighborhoods.

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