House Speaker Chuck Kleckley says he’ll fight a Jindal Administration plan that would reduce funding for higher education by 200 to 300 million dollars. The administration is looking at ways to reduce funding as the result of an anticipated one-point-four billion dollar shortfall. Kleckley says he’ll look at other options, but cutting higher ed when the state needs to bolster its workforce is not the answer…

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University of Louisiana System President Sandra Woodley is confident that the legislature will not let those cuts happen.

Today, the Transportation Funding Task Force meets at the Capitol where they’ll work out recommendations on improving the way the state funds highway improvements. Senate Transportation Committee Chairman, Robert Adley of Benton, is hopeful the task force will get behind his plan to ensure the state spends $70 million for roadway preservation…

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Recommendations are due to the Legislature by January 15.

Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne announces a major motion picture is set to be filmed exclusively in Louisiana about the Battle of New Orleans. He says that battle shaped the future of America and saved New Orleans and Louisiana as a port to be controlled by the US instead of the British…

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The movie will be called, “Andrew Jackson – The Battle For New Orleans.”

Lynne Marino, the highly outspoken mother of serial killer victim Pam Kinamore, discloses that she has pancreatic cancer and hopes to see Derrick Todd Lee executed before she dies. Marino, who is 78, said when she was diagnosed with one of the worst forms of cancer, she had one thought…

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Lee was linked by DNA to the deaths of seven women in the Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas.