8:30 LRN Newscast July 23rd

Louisiana’s first ever openly gay congressional candidate, Justin DeWitt, is one of three challengers to U.S. Representative Garrett Graves in the November 6th election…
Cut 2 (32) ”I’m Matt Doyle”

Louisiana Tech student Mason Williams Andrews is trying to become the youngest person to fly solo around the globe. The 18-year-old left from the Monroe Regional Airport yesterday. His journey is expected to take 40 days.

A study from LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center finds fitness themed video games can help reduce an overweight child’s body mass index and cholestrol. Lead researcher Amanda Staiano says they saw positive health benefits from obese children who conducted three one-hour gaming sessions a week…
cut 6 (09) “…physical activity”
In Louisiana, one in every three children are overweight.

Out of Louisiana’s six U-S Representatives, Third District Congressman Clay Higgins faces the most the challengers at six for the November 6th midterm election. Higgins did not qualify in person as he was in Washington DC last week passing a House resolution expressing support for U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But one of his opponents, Democrat Mimi Methvin, says there is not an immigration crisis as Republicans like to portray…
Cut 17 (08) “…in decades”