9:30 LRN Newscast

Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins introduces a bill to protect the availability of property insurance for Louisiana homeowners. In the past two years, nearly a dozen insurance companies have either failed or left the state. Higgins says his proposed federal legislation would help insurers remain financially stable by providing a tax break…:
Cut 4 (12) “…of the country.”
Higgins’ bill would allow insurance companies to deduct their cost of settlement payouts following a federally declared disaster.

19-year-old Stephanie Morel of Loranger has a lifelong friend from overseas after she received a kidney from a woman in Denmark. It’s Louisiana’s first international paired kidney donation transplant surgery. Ochsner transplant surgery Doctor Dennis Sonnier says Morel and her donor Marianne Poulsen recently met face-to-face…
cut 12 (09) “….emotional moment”

The Queen of Country Music, Loretta Lynn, has died. Brooke Thorington tells us about her three appearances on the Louisiana Hayride…
Cut 2 (35) “…I’m Brooke Thorington.”

The National Hurricane Center says it’s highly likely another tropical depression will form in the Caribbean Sea this week. But it appears this potential storm could be more of an issue for central America