12:30 LRN Newscast

We are keeping our eye on a disturbance in the northern Gulf that has a high chance of becoming a tropical storm or a depression before it makes landfall tomorrow in Texas, near the Louisiana border.  Donald Jones of the National Weather Service says we are NOT looking at our first hurricane of the season…

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Cameron Parish is under a tropical storm warning, and heavy rainfall could be a possibility for extreme southwest Louisiana.

In New Orleans, the family of a teenager who fell to his death inside the dilapidated Plaza Tower in the Central Business District is planning to file lawsuit against the owners of the abandoned building. Seventeen-year-old Jacque St. Ann died after his fall on August 15th and there’s now a fence surrounding the building. Attorney Cedric Richmond says there should have been a fence around the building a long time ago…

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The building has been abandoned since 2002.

 

The Louisiana Republican Party has handed out an endorsement in the sixth district Congressional race. Andrew Greenstein has more…

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State Representative Mark Wright who represents a portion of St. Tammany Parish is leaving the Louisiana Legislature to serve in a leadership position within the Louisiana Department of Transportation. The Covington Republican has served in the legislature since 2017.