5:30 LRN Newscast

A 528-bed holding facility for migrant families and unaccompanied children is under construction at England Airpark, a former military base in Alexandria. Executive Director of the England Airpark Authority, Ralph Hennessy, says the people that will stay at this ICE facility are individuals volunteering to go back home and they’re going back as a family unit…

Cut 4 (07) “…other ways.”

Several immigration advocates have raised the possibility that children could be at the Alexandria facility for weeks or months.

We are little less than four months away from election day. Tensas Parish and Democratic US Senate candidate Jamie Davis is a prohibitive underdog to Republican Congresswoman Julia Letlow. Davis says he wants his campaign to resonate with all Louisianans…

Cut 15 (13) “…Louisiana that’s white

 

When it comes to the burden of car ownership, nowhere do drivers have it worse than here in Louisiana. Rob Bhatt (“bot”), an insurance analyst with LendingTree, says Louisiana drivers spend on average 6.1-percent of their gross income on auto insurance – the highest rate in the nation.

Cut 10 (09) “…in other states.”

The LendingTree study found that the average Louisiana driver spends 327 dollars a month on auto insurance.

Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says one of the several new laws that were approved in the last legislative session, protects those who bundle their insurance policies…

Cut 11 (14) “…happen to them”