Governor John Bel Edwards approved legislation that would front load the TOPS program in the new budget. Halen Doughty has more on how students feel about this change…:
CUT 1 (25) “I’m Halen Doughty”

On the heels of negative press out of Baylor, Tennessee and Florida State over sexual assault claims, LSU President F King Alexander announces every athlete, coach and athletic support staff member will have to undergo harassment sensitivity and awareness training. He hopes the classes will eradicate inappropriate behavior to prevent similar allegations of inappropriate behavior.

A deal has been struck to develop cancer immunotherapy drugs first discovered by LSU Health Shreveport professor Doctor Robert Rhoads and scientists at the University of Warsaw in Poland. Immunotherapy is already used in treatment of melanoma and prostate cancer. Rhoads says pharmaceutical company Sanofi has paid a licensing fee to see if immunotherapy could work with other types of cancer…:
Cut 13 (06) “own cancer”
Rhoads says immunotherapy would not have the toxic side effects of current chemotherapy drugs.

The town of Welsh, located in in Jefferson Davis Parish, is now the official The Home of the Cajun Dictionary.” Mayor Carolyn Louviere (Lou-Vee-Air) says the town’s long time former late pastor, Father Jules Daigle, wasn’t pleased with the way Cajun French was spoken and wrote two books on the language. She credits Welsh’s city council for taking steps to get this designation…:
Cut 10 (07) “was passed”