12:30 LRN Newscast July 22

Abortions remain legal in Louisiana due to a temporary injunction issued by state district judge Donald Johnson; acting on a lawsuit challenging the state’s trigger abortion ban laws. Loyola University Law Professor Dan Ciolino says Attorney General Jeff Landry, who’s defending the state’s abortion ban, most likely will file an appeal…:
CUT 14(09) “…be illegal.”
Ciolino says eventually the matter will go to the state Supreme Court.

The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority announces they’ve completed resoration on the Terrebonne Basin Barrier Islands. The restored one-thousand acre barrier island habitat is the largest restoration project completed by CPRA. Project manager April Newman says the barrier islands will reduce storm surge and flooding for the mainland…
cut 7 (10) “….the communities”

Governor John Bel Edwards’ plan to send the most violent inmates from the troubled Bridge City Center for Youth to Angola state prison comes under fire. More from Kevin Gallagher…:
ut 1 (34) “…I’m Kevin Gallagher.”