6:30 LRN Newscast April 30

A recording that claims LSU basketball coach Will Wade allegedly offered 300,000 dollars in an effort to recruit LSU forward Naz Reid was featured at a federal trial on NCAA corruption Monday. Tiger Rag assistant editor Tyler Nunez says it’s another recruiting allegation against Wade.

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The Department of Health is asking residents to lookout for the penny sized “kissing bug”, that can carry Chagas (shag-as) disease.  LDH vector-borne diseases epidemiologist Julius Tonzel says the Triatomine (try-ah-toe-men) bugs are known to break into poorly insulated homes and feast on unsuspecting sleepers.

Cut 4 (12) “…happens.”

 

An outbreak of Hepatitis A results in the first reported death from the virus in Louisiana. Who’s most at risk for contracting the liver infection? Kevin Barnhart has the story.

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