LSU President and Chancellor F King Alexander says, if the legislature doesn’t restore the massive cut to higher education that’s proposed in Governor Bobby Jindal’s budget, 2,000 classes will be cancelled and every LSU employee will have to be furloughed. Alexander says says there are numerous plans floating around that seek to prevent huge cuts to higher ed, but it’s unclear if any of them will receive the support of the legislature and the governor…
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Alexander says the proposed budget provides LSU with 80-million dollars less in state funding than this fiscal year.
Today, a Terrebonne Parish grand jury will consider the case against a sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed 14-year-old Cameron Tillman last September. The Sheriff’s Department says Deputy Preston Norman fired in self-defense after Tillman appeared to be holding a gun. Legal analyst Tim Meche says the grand jury will hear evidence and testimony, possibly from Norman, himself…
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Relatives of others who were at the abandoned house with Tillman say he was not holding a weapon.
Robert Durst, the multi-millionaire New York real estate heir facing weapons and drug charges, was denied bond in a New Orleans court. Durst is also accused of killing Susan Berman 15 years ago in California. New Orleans criminal defense lawyer Chick Foret says says the New Orleans case will be first…
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Durst’s attorney Dick DeGuerin says his client was arrested illegally on March 14th and it was orchestrated to coincide with the HBO documentary “The Jinx.”
A 30-year-old Baton Rouge heroin user will spend at least 6 years in prison on charges related to the death of his girlfriend from a fatal overdose. East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore says Brandon Eirick pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin…
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Moore says the evidence showed that Eirick purchased the heroin earlier in the day, and he and Leah Hitchinson shot each other up.