1030AM LRN News

Starting next school year, the Avoyelles school system will adopt a four-day week. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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The Powerball is up to 550 million, and as more folks decide to buy tickets the Lotto wants to remind people not to toss out those tickets just because you didn’t win the jackpot. Lotto spokesperson Dustin Annison says there’s ine total winnings, so you’re actually more likely to have won a smaller prize than the big one.
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Third-seeded LSU is in Jacksonville getting ready for tomorrow’s first round NCAA match-up with 14th seeded Yale. Junior guard Skylar Mays both teams like to play an up tempo style and that should benefit the Tigers
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Louisiana has the highest percentage of PlayStation fans in the country, per a survey by PC Magazine that asked gamers to name their top console. The poll nabbed 2,000 responses, and let people chose from Xbox, Nintendo, PC, PlayStation, or none. Associate features editor Rob Marvin gives the breakdown on how to Bayou State prefers to game…
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Louisiana had nearly half as many PC first gamers as the rest of the nation, and less than half the average number of Americans who picked Nintendo as their top system.