9:30 LRN Newscast

Have you noticed the price of eggs lately? According to the USDA, egg prices have increased 39-percent over the past year to $3.65 for a dozen eggs. LSU Ag Center agent Will Strickland says the bird flu has whipped out egg-laying birds in California and the Midwest…

Cut 5 (10) “….pricing even here”

Strickland noted egg prices likely won’t drop soon due to the slow process of replenishing flocks.

Five people from Houston have been arrested for allegedly using drones to drop off drugs and cell phones to inmates at the federal prison in Pollock. Grant Parish Sheriff Steven McCain says this type of activity has been going on for awhile….

Cut 11 (12) “….to two years”

McCain says they’re working on ways to combat the use of drones in smuggling contraband into federal prisons.

A breakthrough N-I-L deal in Louisiana – and he’s a high school sophomore! Andrew Greenstein reports.

Cut 3 (36) “…I’m Andrew Greenstein.”

Google says it will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in Google Maps once it is updated in the U-S Geographic Names System. President Donald Trump has ordered the name change and the U-S Board of Geographic Names is working to update the name.