LRN Newscast 17:30 December 18

Leaders of three different state agencies say they are investigating allegations of wrongdoing involving outgoing Angola warden Burl Cain. State Police Colonel Mike Edmonson says he sent a team of invesigators to Angola…
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Cain has said he’s done nothing wrong, but is leaving his post on December 31st.

A former investigator with the Washington Parish District Attorney’s office is indicted on allegations he used his position to force women who were facing drug charges to have sex with him. Mike Haley, chief deputy with the Washington Parish Sheriff’s office, says 66-year-old Michael Cotton of Bogalusa faces serious charges…
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Cotton was fired from his job with the D-A’s office in August.

The latest Star Wars movie is generating a lot of buzz. This Louisiana boy went on opening day and he says he’s the biggest Star Wars fan you’ll ever meet…
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For it’s preview showings alone, “The Force Awakens” brought in a record breaking $57 million dollars at US box offices in one night.

There’s just one shopping weekend left until Christmas and folks that fell behind this year will be out and about Saturday and Sunday with list in hand. Saturday is known as “Super Saturday,” but LSU Marketing Professor Dan Rice doesn’t think it’ll be as crazy as the day after Thanksgiving…:
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Rice says the good news for last minute shoppers is that they could be paying even less in stores as many sales have already kicked in.