The roads are not as filled with cars on this Martin Luther King Holiday, but many Louisiana residents still wish our higway system was better. Louisiana has at least a 12-billion dollar backlog in road and bridge projects. New Senate Transportation Chairman Page Cortez says Governor John Bel Edwards is committed to ending the shifting of money from the state’s gas funded Transportation Trust Fund to State Police…
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Cortez says look for this issue to be addressed in the legislative session later this year.

Baton Rouge police have booked 17-year-old Ahmed Antoine on a charge of negligent homicide after he allegedly fired a gun, killing his 17-year-old friend Devin Anderson. Corpola Don Coppola says the evidence at this time shows it was an accident…
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The two were playing with the gun when it went off at a home in Baton rouge.

A new report shows that even though Louisiana has the second lowest median income in the nation, its residents do better than expected when it comes to managing money. Eric Gill has more…
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Louisiana’s efforts to re-populate the whooping crane population along the Gulf Coast had a minor setback as two of the big birds were found shot to death in Texas. That brings the total number of whooping cranes to 44 in Louisiana. But biologist Sara Zimorski with LDWF says she’s looking forward to seeing new nests in the Spring…
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