11:30 LRN Newscast

The House Appropriations Committee approves a budget for next fiscal year that keeps teacher salaries at their current level. There’s been a concern that a two-thousand dollar stipend that teachers have received the last couple of school years would go away, but House Appropriations Chairman Jack McFarland announced today they have moved money around to make sure teachers do not see a drop in pay…
Cut 3 (10) “…charter school systems.”
The Budget bill heads to the House floor.
The Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs and the Louisiana Center for Health Innovation at UL-Lafayette have teamed up to do a comprehensive survey to learn more about the challenges veterans are facing. Gabriella Wilson is the director of the Louisiana Center for Health Innovation and says they want to assess the needs of veterans…
Cut 7 (12) “…needs of everybody.”
The survey can be found at lchi.louisiana.edu
AARP is speaking out against a bill that it says would let nursing home companies off the hook for abuse and negligence. Andrew Greenstein reports.
Cut 2 (32) “…I’m Andrew Greenstein.”
State Police is investigating a fatal officer involved shooting in Shreveport on Saturday night. No officers were injured, but a subject was shot and pronounced dead.
D-1 Baseball, Baseball America and Perfect Game all rank LSU number one in the country after winning its series against Arkansas.