18:30 LRN Newscast November 15th

College students who have TOPS are looking at paying for 60-percent of their tuition for the spring semester. Governor John Bel Edwards expressed his disappointment that young adults are facing this kind of cost to get an education. Edwards says it’s his hope the state can allocate more dollars to the popular scholarship program next year.

A 17-year-old St. Paul’s High School football player is still recovering from a serious neck injury suffered in last Friday’s playoff win. Emelie Gunn has more…
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FEMA announces they will continue to pay for hotel rooms for displaced flood victims through December 18th. Dennis Rodriguez is one of those staying in a hotel and says he’s thrilled they’ve extended the deadline because his home still unlivable. He says he’d have nowhere to live if the program ended on November 18th as planned.
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More than 2-thousand families are using this federal assistance to live at a hotel.

New Orleans based-airlines, GLO, celebrates its one-year anniversary today. They offer daily flights from New Orleans to Shreveport, Little Rock and Memphis and founder and C-E-O Trey Fayard says they have a business model that works…
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Fayard says they hope to expand their business in year two.