06:30 Newscast, October 17th, 2016

Governor John Bel Edwards and Attorney General Jeff Landry are in court today after the administration sued the AG for blocking state legal contracts with discrimination clauses. Jeremy Alford of Lapoltics.com says it’s very unusual to see statewide elected officials sue one another…:

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At issue are deals with wording to protect members of the LGBT community from workplace discrimination.

Louisiana’s film industry is once again starting to see signs of life. Celtic Media Centre Executive Director Patrick Mulhern says his phone is starting to ring at the Baton Rouge movie studios for the first time in a long time…:
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He believes that will happen sooner than later.

Louisiana ranks second in the nation for accidental shootings involving minors, nearly three times more than the national average. That’s according to new data from the Associated Press and USA today. East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore says what we don’t know is how kids are getting their hands on these weapons…:
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He encourages parents to take guns away from teens who have no business having them.

A drunk 20-year-old who was removed from the LSU/Southern Miss game and taken to the hospital is under arrest for allegedly assaulting three emergency medical service workers. 20-year-old Michael Curry is accused of striking and kicking an EMS worker, and later punching a woman in ER several times in the back of the head – then kicking another trying to help her. Curry was booked on battery charges.