10:30 LRN Newscast august 30

A recent study finds nine percent of visitors to Louisiana were influenced to travel to this state after watching a film or TV show shot here. Kevin Barnhart reports that’s why the Lt. Governor wants to establish a movie trail for visitors to follow…
cut 1 (31) “….I’m Kevin Barnhart”

The governor’s office says on October 1st, Ochsner and LSU will take over the management of safety-net hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe. The new deal will cost an additional 40-dollars, but Commissioner of Adminsitration Jay Dardenne says federal money will cover the extra cost.

State Representative Blake Miguez appears in two commercials produced by the Louisiana Republican Judiciary PAC that urge voters to support the constitutional amendment on the November sixth ballot that seeks to end the use of non-unanimous jury verdicts in felony cases. Miguez says it should be a 100-percent decision by a jury, before someone is sent to jail…
cut 9 (06) “…for you”
The unanimous jury question is amendment two on the ballot.

LSU President F King Alexander says this year’s freshman class is the largest in school history…
cut 15 (08) “…coming into the university”
When fall classes started last week, there were 58-hundred freshmen enrolled, which is just ahead of the previous record set six years ago.