1130AM LRN News

Monroe is an election battleground today featuring both Governor Edwards and the President…

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Three months after medical marijuana become publicly available advocates are sounding the alarm about the hundreds of dollars a month it costs many patients to maintain the treatment.  Healing Clinics CEO Kathryn Thomas…

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To the surprise of some LSU fans, the Tigers are not number one in the first college football playoff ranking for the 2019 season. The selection committee ranked Ohio State ahead of LSU and Alabama is third. Tiger Rag Editor Ron Higgins says he’s not surprised with the Buckeyes getting the top spot…

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Renown Pointe Coupee Parish Pulitzer-nominated author Ernest Gaines passed away yesterday at 86. Gaines was born on a plantation into a rural sharecropping family during the Great Depression and told Jim Engster during an interview in 2008 that it wasn’t an easy upbringing.

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Gaines is best known for his works The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, a Gathering of Old Men, and a Lesson Before Dying.