The second special session of the year ends at midnight Thursday, and lawmakers are still squabbling over TOPS funding. The House approved a bill that would fund the program at 70%. But Bogalusa Representative Malinda White believes safety net hospitals should have priority over TOPS…:
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But other legislators do not want to take anymore money away from TOPS. The Senate will hear the measure next.

The storms in Louisiana this year have been loaded with astounding lightning, and State Farm says the state ranks third for claims related to damage caused by the bolts. Spokesman Roszell Gadson if you have an expensive device or appliance, you should plug it into a surge protector…:
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He says lightning is most frequent during June, July, and August.

Toledo Bend on the Texas-Louisiana border came in as the number one fishing destination in the country for the second straight year. Emelie Gunn has more:
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State Police say an arrest has been made in the case of a fatal hit and run crash that claimed the life of a pedestrian in Terrebonne Parish. They say 52-year-old Darrell Barlow of Chauvin was booked with vehicular homicide, felony hit and run, improper lane usage and obstruction of justice. 22-year-old William Boyne was walking along a roadway last Friday when he was run over by Barlow’s truck, according to investigators.