Republican Senator Bill Cassidy has introduced a bill that would require the Department of Education to make the FAFSA form available by October 1st. Mel Bridges has more…:
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State Police is investigating an officer involved shooting in Lafayette Parish. They say Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Deputies were trying to apprehend a suspect, Tony Pollard, who refused to comply with orders and moved in a threatening manner driving the cops to respond with deadly force. LSP said no deputies were injured.

An influential Republican donor has sent a letter to lawmakers pushing them to quickly vote on a constitutional convention to make changes to things like public school funding, the homestead exemption on property taxes and more. LA-Politics-dot-com Publisher Jeremy Alford says this would mean lawmakers would have to return to the capitol for a 4th time this year…;
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Such a convention would have to be completed by September for changes to make it to the fall ballot.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the Lafourche Parish native who served jail time for her role in killing her abusive mother, has announced she’s pregnant. Gypsy says some have questioned her ability to parent given the years of medical mistreatment by her mom, “Dee Dee” Blanchard…:
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Gypsy says she plans to be everything her mother wasn’t.