13:30 Newscast, August 14th, 2017

An audit of the state’s foster care system uncovered shortcomings in the state program. Halen Doughty has more…:
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LSU is losing a quarterback as redshirt-freshman Lindsey Scott announces he’s leaving the Tiger football team. Tiger Rag Editor Cody Worsham says Scott faced long odds to get any serious playing time at LSU after Head Coach Ed Orgeron signed Lowell Narcisse and Myles Brennan…:
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The new all-suite, 166-guest American Duchess makes her inaugural sail today out of the Port of New Orleans. Port spokesperson Donnell Jackson says the paddle wheeler will leave city and head up river…:
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He says the ship offers inland cruises in the Lower Mississippi River.

US Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is touring Denham Springs today, one year after the majority of the city was under water in the August 2016 floods. He is slated to be with Mayor Gerard Landry who looks back a year later and feels what surprised everyone most of all was how fast everything happened. He says “rescue mode” began almost immediately…:
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Landry says a little over 77% of the structures in the city received 18 inches or more.