4:30 PM Newscast

Baton Rouge Police believe a Texas death row inmate fatally shot 19- year-old LSU student Kassie Federer in her apartment in 1999.  Investigators say DNA has linked 49-year old Travis Green to the crime. Sgt. Don Coppola says he’s not sure of why Green had a connection with the Baton Rouge area, but says he may have been fleeing the Houston area following a murder.  Green is currently locked away for that killing which happened days before the death of Federer.
Cut 8 (09) “…he is behind bars.”

Baton Rouge Congressman Garret Graves has started a GoFundMe to cover the 100,000 dollar fine the SEC slapped on LSU, after fans stormed the field following the Tigers upset win over Georgia. The account has raised over 15,000 dollars to date. Graves says if he was in the student section, he would rush the field too…

Cut 9 (07)  “…was wrong”

Governor John Bel Edwards, along with other state and local leaders, cut the ribbon this morning on the long awaited I-49–I-220 connector in Shreveport. DOTD spokesperson Erin Buchanan says the 142-million dollar project started in 2014, but delayed by major floods in 2015 and 2016. She says not only has the state opened a new interstate interchange, but I-220 has been re-constructed…

Cut 4 (07) “…as well″

The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness and the Department of Children and Family Services is sending a Human Services Branch Team of three to Florida for a fifteen day deployment.  Director of Emergency Preparedness for DCFS, Ricky Montet says the team doesn’t have a luxurious Florida trip ahead of them as they are facing various challenges with disabled cellular communications and hotels are all filled with people who lost homes during the storm.

Cut 14 (08) “…could stay there.”