12:30 LRN Newscast

House Speaker Mike Johnson of Benton announces a Bipartisan Task Force will investigate the assassination attempt of Donald Trump. Sean Richardson has the story.
Cut 1 (33) …I’m Sean Richardson.”

Twenty-five year-old Aaliyah Jack’s bond has been set at nine million dollars. The Lake Charles woman is accused of killing her four-year-old son and abandoning her one-year one child. Jack was arrested in Mississippi after her four-year-old son was found in a pond at the Vinton Welcome Center. Jack told KPLC TV that she was on drugs.

According to a report from the Public Affairs Research Council, about 867-thousand low income residents each month receive food stamps and 45-percent of those recipients are children. That means one out of every five people in Louisiana relies on food stamps. Invest in Louisiana director Jan Moeller says this report shows why it was so important for the state to put up three-million dollars to pay for a federal EBT program that provides lunches to low-income children who are of school for the summer…
cut 8 (12) “…go hungry”

New Orleans Representative Aimee Freeman has started undergoing chemotherapy after she was diagnosed with breast cancer this summer….
cut 11 (12) “….own journey”
Freeman expects to be in treatment for 10 to 12 months.