13:30 LRN Newscast January 3rd

US Representative Cedric Richmond from New Orleans officially took over today as the chairman of the Black Congressional Caucus. Halen Doughty has more…
CUT 1 (30) “I’m Halen Doughty”

Parts of north Louisiana could see snow this week. Patrick Omundson with the National Weather Service in Shreveport says cold air arrives tonight and precipitation is expected to arrive on Friday.
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There’s a 30-percent chance for snow Friday night in Monroe.

Saints Coach Sean Payton is trying to end specualation he will coach in another NFL city next year. Here’s what he said during an interview on WWL radio when asked about the rumors he could leave New Orleans…
cut 11 (13) “…honoring that”
Payton signed a new five year deal last year.

And season two of the Killing Fields airs tonight on the Discovery Channel. The cold case show follows detectives around from Iberville Parish. Sheriff Brett Stassi says this year’s season will feature the arrest of a cold case from 1991 and when a woman’s body from Texas ended up in Whiskey Bay…
cut 13 (05) “…guilty verdict”
Season one, focused on the 1997 murder of an LSU grad student. That case remains unsolved.