16:30 LRN Newscast Feb 28

Governor Edwards and Republican state senator Sharon Hewitt call on Secretary of State Tom Schedler to resign because of sexual harassment allegations.…
Cut 2 (30) “I’m Jeff Palermo”.

Nine Louisiana parishes along the I-20 corridor are under a flash flood watch through tomorrow morning. Aaron Stevens is with the National Weather Service in Shreveport….
cut 9 (09) “…pretty quicly quickly”

Republican U-S Senator John Kennedy says he doesn’t plan on voting for any of the gun control bills that may come before the Senate in reaction to the deadly mass shooting at a Florida school two weeks ago. Kennedy says statistically gun owners are not the problem…
cut 8 (10) “…danger to anyone”
Kennedy says if we enforced the laws on the books many of the shootings, including the one in Florida would not have happened.

The small town of Urania in LaSalle Parish has landed a big sawmill that will create 110 jobs and an additional 300 indirect jobs. A joint venture by Hunt Forest Products and Tolko Industries will build a state of the art 115-million-dollar mill in the heart of the state’s 11-billion-dollar forest products industry. Urania Mayor Terri Corley is thrilled they can use the former location of the old Louisiana-Pacific mill…
ut 3 (06) “a sawmill.”