7:30 AM LRN Newscast

Governor Landry will be in Abbeville this morning, where he’s expected to announce that SpaceX will be building a spaceport in Vermilion Parish. Here’s Andrew Greenstein.

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Poice in Eunice have identified the two victims who were killed in Saturday morning’s shooting as 22 year old Davion Fugett and 34 year old Rico Morgan, both of Eunice. The two were killed when five people were shot early Saturday at Chip’s Daiquiris there. So far, no arrests have been made but police say they have identified a person of interest.

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LSU’s celebration of Louisiana legend Skip Bertman’s life will be held in the PMAC tonight at 7.  Doors are set to open at six and the event is open to the public. The ceremony will also be broadcast on ESPN-plus and the SEC Network. Doug Thompson, one of Bertman’s national champion pitchers, says LSU fans are known for showing up for their teams, and he hopes that the PMAC is bursting at the seams with Tiger fans honoring Bertman.

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The Louisiana High School Athletic Association is seeing more multi-sport officials. Director of Officials Lee Sanders says there are about four-thousand officials, and 926 of them work multiple sports, which is a 10-percent increase from last year and a 22-percent increase from 2024.

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