The third Louisiana Radio Network Gubernatorial Question of the Week asked the candidates, “As Governor, how would you reform the Medicaid program? Would you accept federal dollars so more uninsured people can receive coverage?” US Senator David Vitter says the only way he’d consider accepting the federal dollars is if programs were reformed through private coverage or some other model…

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Louisiana’s gubernatorial primary is October 24th.

With a week left in the 2015 legislative session, there are questions whether the legislature can pass a budget that will NOT be vetoed by Governor Bobby Jindal. Jeremy Alford, with la-politics-dot-com, says if Jindal does veto the budget, we could see an override veto session…

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He says the legislature is struggling with putting together a spending plan that’s revenue neutral, which the governor has requested.

Lafayette Police arrested a woman for second-degree murder after the discovery of an infant’s body that had been in a storage unit for 14 years . Corporal Nicole Benoit says police were notified after a man who purchased the storage unit discovered the body in a box.

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Fifty-seven-year-old Rebecca Landry was booked into Lafayette Parish Jail for the death of the child.

Tickets to see Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans go on sale this morning at 10am and are expected to go fast. General manager Alan Freeman says they’ll be drawing Garth fans from all over the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and western Florida…

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You can online buy tickets online at ticketmaster.com