The NAACP in Tangipahoa Parish is meeting with leaders in Ponchatoula today to further efforts to stop the sale of the controversial Strawberry Festival poster. Michelle Southern reports…

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The Natchitoches Police Department has arrested the principal of a public alternative school for allegedly abusing an 11-year-old boy last week. The boy reportedly told his mother that 41-year-old Bobby Joe Benjamin, Jr. struck him multiple times and slammed him against a wall. Benjamin, principal at the Frankie Ray Jackson Technical Center, faces charges of cruelty to juveniles, aggravated battery, simple battery, and second degree battery. He has been placed on administrative leave.

The 2015 Louisiana Survey reveals that 83-percent of residents want the state’s budget deficit to be resolved through a combination of spending cuts and tax hikes. When it comes to raising revenue, LSU’s Public Policy Research Lab Director Michael Henderson says the public seems to behind a hike in the so-called “sin taxes”: alcohol, tobacco, and gaming…

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He says Louisianians actually want more money spent in areas of education, health care, and transportation, which puts policy makers in a bind.

A former school board candidate in south Louisiana has been charged with felony sexual battery of a 12-year-old girl. East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lawrence McLeary says the allegation is that 34-year-old Philip Ziegler of Central had come over to the victim’s house for a bonfire and ended up staying the night. He says the juvenile contends that at some point in the night, the suspect came to her room.:

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