08:30 Newscast, November 8th, 2017

Republican U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy has introduced the Vehicular Terrorism Prevention Act, aimed at preventing terrorists from using vehicles to attack Americans. He says this bill would give Congress information cops need in expanding their role to more technical issues..:
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He says this is needed as technology improves.

Changes are finally coming to the forecast. State Climatologist Barry Keim says today will be much cooler, but a moderate chance of rain will stick around most of the day. He says if you’re going to Tiger Stadium Saturday for the 11am kickoff…:
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He says rain should be gone from the forecast by tomorrow afternoon.

WBRZ in Baton Rouge is reporting that the Louisiana State Penitentiary is investigating an incident in which a teen was allegedly raped at the Angola rodeo. They said many unsuccessful attempts were made to get information from prison officials before the report aired last night, but then multiple sources agreed to discuss the situation if not identified. The prison issued a statement saying it’s an ongoing investigating into the alleged incident which may have occurred during the last weekend of the rodeo.

Emerge Louisiana is searching for interested women who want to run for political office as Democrats…:
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