LSU President and Chancellor F King Alexander says Governor Bobby Jindal’s proposed budget for next fiscal year will only provide LSU with 30-million dollars in state funding, a reduction from 110-million dollars this fiscal year. He says students and alumni need to speak up loudly against this type of cut…

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He says if the legislature doesn’t restore the massive cut to higher education in the proposed budget, 2,000 classes will be cancelled and every LSU employee will have to be furloughed.

Today, a grand jury will convene to hear the case against a Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed a 14-year-old last September. The Sheriff’s Department says Deputy Preston Norman fired in self-defense after Cameron Tillman appeared to be holding a gun. Relatives of others who were at the abandoned house with Tillman say he was not holding a weapon. Legal analyst Tim Meche says the big question here is whether it was necessary for Norman to fire in order to protect human life…

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Testimony could last until tomorrow.

In the latest in the continuing Robert Durst matter, the multi-millionaire New York real estate heir was denied bond in court in New Orleans. Michelle Southern reports…

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A Franklin Parish woman was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to second degree cruelty to a juvenile after her 20-month-old daughter fell out of her moving car last June. Authorities say 24-year-old LaSasha Allen placed her daughter in an unrestrained position and opened the car door while rounding a curve, allowing her daughter to fall out. The child received multiple injuries, including a skull fracture.