15:30 LRN Newscast

Officials in New Orleans are exploring ways they can make the streets safer following another deadly shooting on Bourbon Street over the weekend, which claimed the life of one person and injured 9 others. NOPD Chief Michael Harrison says more has to be done…:
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He blames the latest incident on an argument between two men and both remain at large.

Two people are dead and several injured following a shootout in Baton Rouge. State Police Col. Mike Edmonson says last night police responded to a shooting on Essen Lane. He says 48-year-old Terrell Walker allegedly shot his girlfriend, 30-year-old April Peck, multiple times while sitting in a car and then pushed her out of the vehicle.
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Edmsonson says Walker was eventually killed during a shootout with East Baton Rouge Sheriff deputies.

Only 22,200 people cast a ballot on the first day of early voting in the December 10th runoff elections. Michelle Southern reports.
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Baton Rouge Police say a 32-year-old woman faces charges after she held a knife to her husband’s throat and threw the Thanksgiving turkey at him during an argument. Sergeant Don Coppola says Helen Jackson was arrested at the couple’s home…
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