11:30 Newscast January 30th, 2015

Mitt Romney announced Friday he’s decided not to run for president next year, so what could that mean for Governor Bobby Jindal? 2016 would have been Romney’s third run at the White House. UL-Lafayette Political Science professor Pearson Cross says this is one less main-stream contender that Jindal has to compete with…:
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Cross says Romney also didn’t want Jindal as a Vice President so this might make the Governor a more viable contender to the new Republican nominee.

The Louisiana Lottery says we’ve now hit the biggest Powerball jackpot of 2015 with tomorrow’s drawing worth a whopping $298 million dollars. They say we haven’t had a big jackpot winner in Louisiana since May 2013 so we’re due. Players are reminded that there are many prizes on the Powerball ticket and it only takes one to win. The current jackpot has a cash value of about $198.4 million dollars.

State Fire Marshal’s officials are investigating a Thursday night mobile home fire in Marksville that has left four dead. Eric Gill reports…:
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Louisiana 6th District Congressman Garret Graves was named Vice Chair for the Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee this week. Graves will have jurisdiction over the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agencies — both of which oversee programs of concern to the Subcommittee.