9:30 LRN Newscast

A Texas attorney received a 180-day jail sentence for slipping his now estranged wife with abortion inducing medication and the brother of the victim says that’s way to light of a punishment…
cut 5 (04) “…not just”
That’s Shreveport Senator Thomas Pressly, who has authored a bill that would punish a person for doing a similar thing in Louisiana for at least

Former New Orleans Representative and the current Assistant to the Commissioner of the Office of Motor Vehicles, Austin Badon, has switched political parties making him one of the state’s newest Black Republicans. When asked if Governor Jeff Landry asked him to join the GOP…
Cut 13 (09) “…at all.”
But Badon says he did text Landry and let me know that he changed parties.

The driving factor to why he chose to leave the Democratic Party, Badon says was the immigration issue at the Texas border.

After decades of delays, major flood projects for the Baton Rouge and New Orleans areas are close to receiving funding from Congress…
Cut 3 (32) “…I’m Colleen Crain”

The U-S House is expected to approve this funding this week

Congressman Clay Higgins has announced another 14-million dollars for hurricane Laura recovery efforts. Eight million dollars will go to Jefferson Davis Electric Co-op for permanent repairs to a substation, Jefferson-Davis will get another four million for permanent restoration of their north power distribution system and one million dollars will go towards repairs at College Oaks Elementary School in Lake Charles.