530PM LRN News

The lone survivor from Saturday’s Lafayette plane crash that killed five people has burns to 75 percent of his body, but is in stable, if still critical condition. Doctor Joey Barrios, medical director of the Our Lady of Lourdes Burn Unit, says Wade Berzas also has a dislocated shoulder and lacerations to his head. But Barrios says Berzas is 37-years-old which helps, plus he was in good health before the crash

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Two teens from Morse are dead following a wreck on I-10 in Acadia Parish just before 8 o’clock last night. Trooper Thomas Gossen says impairment is unknown, but it appears the driver may have been competing with another vehicle.

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Kyler Mier and his passenger Dante Lacombe, both 19, were declared dead at the scene.

A federal judge temporarily halts a California law banning the sale of alligator products in the Golden State, a law officials say would devastate gator conservation efforts in the Bayou State. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries General Counsel Cole Garrett says it’s good news because the California fashion industry buys a lot of gator products, which pays for conservation.

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The federal court will hear the Commission’s motion for a preliminary injuction on April 24th.

50-year-old Felicia Payne of Alexandria allegedly drunk drove her car into State Police Troop E’s office, and was arrested on scene as a result. Master Trooper Scott Moreau says with New Years Eve coming up, don’t risk an incident like this for yourself…

Cut 11 (10) “…tommorow.”