1230PM LRN News

GOP governor’s race candidate Eddie Rispone is set to start spending big with a substantial ad blast coming to TV screens across the state set to reinforcement the candidate’s message that he’s the only pro-Trump, conservative, outsider in the race.

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That’s Rispone campaign communications director Anthony Ramirez who says expect to see the candidate’s message on everything from nightly news to Monday Night Football.

The Louisiana Select Association has been formed within the Louisiana High School Athletic Association. The L-S-A is made up of private schools. Catholic High of Baton Rouge athletics director J-P Kelly says finding a host site for their championship games is a top priority…

cut 11 (10) “….for us”

Kelly says the Superdome is also an option.

48-year-old James William Eaton of West Monroe is in jail after posing online as a woman and luring another man to drive from California to Ouachita Parish thinking he was marrying that woman.  Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Glen Springfield says investigators found a box that had been mailed to Eaton’s alter ego “Rose Williams” from the victim.

Cut 4 (13) “…in the box.”

Springfield believes Eaton thought he’d never end up actually meeting the victim.