3:30 PM Newscast

Hyundai announces that it’s building a new manufacturing plant in Ascension Parish. The 5.8-billion-dollar plant in Donaldsonville will be Hyundai’s first steel facility in North America, and it will create more than 13-hundred direct jobs with an average salary of 95-thousand dollars a year. In an announcement at the White House, President Trump says the plant will bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.

Cut 12 (09) “…every single year.”

Oral arguments have wrapped up at the U.S. Supreme Court in a challenge to the state’s new congressional map. The Louisiana Attorney General’s Office defended the map approved in 2024 that features two Black majority districts for the first time in decades. Solicitor General Ben Aguinaga (ah-gheen-YAH-gah) says they were told by federal judges that a second majority Black district is needed in Louisiana.

Cut 6 (10) “…going to do that.”

The plaintiffs say the map violates the Equal Protection Clause, which says race cannot be the primary factor when drawing boundaries.

Hearts are heavy in St. Tammany Parish after a deputy sheriff is killed in the line of duty. Andrew Greenstein reports.

Cut 1 (29) “…I’m Andrew Greenstein.”

Four people were shot during a trail ride event in Clarence last Saturday. The Natchitoches Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of gunfire at the event, which had over 1,000 attendees and only 4 private security guards. Captain Tony Moran says the suspect fled before law enforcement arrived and no arrests were made.

Cut 10 (09) “…being provided.”

The victims were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.