LRN Newscast 14:30 03-25-15

The Strawberry Festival Board and the Kiwanis Club of Ponchatoula have both apologized for the controversial 2015 poster…
CUT 2 (30) “reporting”

Natchitoches Police say public alternative school principal is facing charges connected to the abuse of an 11 year-old boy. Bobby Joe Benjamin Jr. from the Frankis Ray Jackson Technical Center was arrested on cruelty to juveniles, aggravated, simple and 2nd degree battery charges, after the boys mother heard about the multiple beatings.
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An investigation of grade changing involving some Beau Chene High School students in St. Landry Parish, have yielded 46 suspensions. According to St. Landry School Superintendent Edward Brown says , it all stemmed from one student who had hacked into the computer grading program. Brown says they needed to send a message…
cut 5 (08) Q: “the system”

There’s a lot of talk about the pictures and video going around of the two circus elephants who helped kept an 18-wheeler from overturning yesterday on I-49 near Powhatan (Pow-Hat-Tin). some are calling this animal abuse; while Natchitoches Parish Sheriff’s Office Capt Tony Moran says the animals seemed to be willing to assist, and they did not appear to be injured…
CUT 11 (03) Q: “great job”
Moran says these were circus elephants were being transported from New Orleans to Dallas.