10:30 LRN Newscast July 29

Starting Monday, August 1st, military veterans will have the right to carry a concealed weapon without a permit.
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The Governor’s Office of Community Programs will host four back-to-school fairs where they’ll provide free school supplies. The first fair is tormorrow in Natchitoches from 10 AM to noon at City Park and director Katina Semien Smothers says the remaining fairs are in August…
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LSU’s Mike the Tiger will be featured in a movie that will be produced called the Mascot. Writer/director Matthew Perkins says it’s a heartfelt-sports comedy about a quarterback who loses his scholership to LSU and reinvents himself as the school’s mascot. Perkins says it’s more of a parable about identity, and how we all wear masks metaphorically, especially in our formative years in college.
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Casey Cott has been cast as the lead character and with NIL, LSU football players will also be in the film.
Northwestern State men’s basketball is excited about the addition of
Hansel Enmanuel to its 2022 recruiting class. You may have seen him in a Gatorade commercial. The Florida prep star dominated the hard wood in high school with one arm. Demons Coach Corey Gipson says it doesn’t even dawn on him that Enmanuel has a disability…:
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Enmanuel is from the Dominican Republic and he had his left arm amputated at the age of 6 after a wall collapsed on it