9:30 LRN Newscast

The Louisiana House Insurance Committee is meeting today for the third time since July to address the ongoing auto insurance crisis. House Insurance Chairman Gabe Firment (FUR-mint) says the committee is focusing on several factors like gender, race, credit score as well as…

Cut 5 (11) “…in the state.”

Firment says the average annual premium in the state exceeds 25-hundred dollars.

If you believe in Bigfoot, there’s a festival in Natchitoches with your name all over it. The Louisiana Bigfoot Festival will be held from ten to six tomorrow at the Natchitoches Events Center. Organizer Jeff Tarpley says this is an event for the whole family.

Cut 12 (07) “…oriented for sure.”

The event goes from ten to six.

An iconic part of the Lake Charles skyline will be coming down tomorrow morning. Project manager Josh Stevens says the Capital One Tower will be the tallest building his company has ever demolished.

Cut 8 (17) “…six stories tall.”

Most of the tower’s windows were blown out during Hurricane Laura four years ago. It stood in disrepair ever since; and given the cost to bring it back up to code, the only viable option was to knock it down.

An Avolleyes (ah-VOY-ess) Parish woman is arrested in connection with a string of crimes. Alexandria Police say 27-year-old Anais Brown of Simmesport forced her way into a home, fired a gun, carjacked a vehicle and forced the driver to withdraw money from an ATM. She then allegedly carjacked another vehicle and forced that driver out. Police found Brown in that vehicle and arrested her.