2:30 PM Dec 15 LRN Newscast

The legislature has more money at its disposal than they anticipated. Jeanne Burns reports.

Cut 26 (33) “…I’m Jeanne Burns.”

While State Farm will be boosting premiums on property insurance policies by an average of almost ten percent statewide, Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says it will be lowering auto insurance premiums by almost six percent on average.

Cut 3 (06) “…smaller than that.”

Temple says State Farm requested the decrease because in the last year they paid fewer claims than they had forecast.

The Saints put the Panthers away yesterday 20 – 17. The game winning drive started at the Saints’ nine-yard line with only 57 seconds left. With one time out Tyler Shough got the Saints into Charlie Smyth’s field goal range. Shough says the entire offensive unit was locked in.

Cut 8 (13) “…really, really well.”

If cold weather is not your thing, good news, after tomorrow, we warm up for the rest of the week. Then next week for Christmas, Shane Pendleton, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Shreveport, says we can expect my kind of weather, unseasonably warm and dry conditions for Christmas week.

Cut 11 (11) “…holidays.”

High temperatures next week will range from the upper 60s to the 70s.