12:30 LRN Newscast

A Lafayette woman was fatally shot after answering a knock at her front door last night…..
cut 4 (08) “…the shooter”
That’s Lafayette Police Corporal Bridgette Dugas who says the shooting occurred on Essie Street shortly after 9:00 PM.

In St. Tammany Parish, Covington Police arrested an 18-year-old student at Covington High after she attacked a 64-year-old school teacher. Sergeant Edwin Masters says the assault was caught on video…
cut 6 (11) “…assault people”
Masters says Larrianna Jackson was charged with Battery of a School Teacher, while the victim needed medical attention at a local hospital.

Baton Rouge commercial pilot and Navy veteran Luke Mixon is running for Senate in an effort to unseat the state’s junior senator John Kennedy in 2022. Mixon says he’s frustrated with the partisan politics in DC and Louisiana is not getting their fair share of natural disaster assistance.
Cut 30 (12) “…bickering (x2).”
Kennedy’s campaign says the national Democrats have anointed their hand-picked liberal to run against him.

You can bet on football games legally at Paragon Casino as the Indian casino in Marksville has opened its sportsbook called the draft room. Paragon General Manager Marshall Sampson says the Draft Room has hundreds of big-screen TVs and a comfortable atmosphere…
cut 14 (11) “…square feet”