9:30 LRN Newscast

Beloved Chalmette High School principal Wayne Warner continues to recover from a broken hip and elbow after he was attacked by 33-year-old Christopher Kidd who is wheelchair-bound. St Bernard Parish Sheriff James Pohlman says the 79-year-old Warner saw Kidd pushing over trash cans and asked Kidd what he was doing and that’s when the disabled man pushed him down…
Cut 19 (09) “…(x2) in the wheelchair.”
Kidd has been arrested and faces several charges. He has a criminal history that dates back to 2016.

Most of the state is under a heat advisory again today as heat indices could reach 110-degrees so be careful when spending long periods of time outside…
cut 6 (11) “….as well”
That’s Doctor Sunday Winder with the Louisiana Department of Health.

Lending Tree analysis of U-S Census Bureau data finds an increase in retirement age Louisiana residents who are still working. 23-percent of Louisiana adults 65 and older are working that’s up from 19-percent in 2022. UNO Business Professor Mark Rosa says rising prices for just about everything are pushing people to hold off on retiring…
cut 12 (10) “….then retire”

Process Service Specialists, headquartered in Ascension Parish, will spend 3.5 million dollars over the next three years to build a manufacturing facility at the Port of Lake Charles. The new facility will provide commercial and industrial steel and piping to customers around the world. PSS Vice President of Fabrication Aaron Reeves says the facility will create 160 new jobs with an average salary of 100-thousand dollars…
cut 8 (05) “….these guys”