3:30 LRN Newscast July 8

Oil City Representative Danny McCormick says in a video on Facebook that requiring a person to wear a mask is an assault on liberty. McCormick also adds a mask mandate is a gateway to other government efforts of overreach…
Cut 4 (10)_ “…take the mark.”
McCormick published the post as Shreveport’s mask mandate for people inside a business begins today.

A man wanted for shooting at State Trooper on Sunday was fatally shot during a gun fight with police at a Monroe motel early this morning. Master Trooper Michael Reichardt says troopers attempted to convince 31-year-old Erroll Johnson to surrender peacefully…
cut 8 (08) “…work”
Reichardt says they’ve been searching for Johnson since he shot at a trooper during a traffic stop near Calhoun on Sunday.

The hurricane forecast team at Colorado State increased their forecast total for the current hurricane season from 19 to 20. Researcher Jhordanne Jones says the bumped up forecast comes as a result of several factors, including above average sea surfaces temps in the north Atlantic…
cut 13 (05) “….of the US”
The CSU team is also calling for nine hurricanes and four major hurricanes.

The 2019 LSU football team has received their championship rings and they got three of them. One for winning the SEC Championship, one for winning the college football playoffs and another for winning a national championship. Coach Ed Orgeron’s assistant, Derek Ponamsky, says on the inside of the national championship ring is the LSU standard of performance…
cut 10 (08) “…yourself”
For the players and coaches who are no longer with the program, they had their rings shipped to them.