06:30 Newscast, January 30th, 2017

A study group for the state Department of Education finds a significant jump in the number of students completing the federal financial assistance application. Emelie Gunn has more…:
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Two University of Oklahoma Students have been arrested for breaking into Tiger Stadium. LSU officials say 20-year-old Samuel Holland and 19-year-old Lucas Miller were spotted inside Death Valley at around noon Sunday. Based on the police report, officers told the unwelcome guests to get down, however they decided to run away, but were caught by LSU police officers after getting through a security gate. They were booked into the East Baton Rouge prison.

Now is your chance to ride in a self-driving automated shuttle, as a demonstration takes place in New Orleans today. Neil Hemenover with Transdev North America says the vehicle was created by EasyMile and is already in use in Europe. He says the technology is available for a self-driving shuttle to follow a set route….:
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Hemenover says about 4-thousand people a day use a self-driving shuttle in France and the Netherlands.

The body of a woman found under an I-12 bridge in Livingston Parish has been identified as 30-year-old Jennifer Annette Blount of Denham Springs. Walker police said they haven’t determined the cause of her death but are investigating it as a homicide.