President Barack Obama says the federal government will cover a larger share of the costs to repair the damage done to public buildings and infrastrure that are the result of the historic flooding in south Louisiana. The larger cost share, means the feds will pick up 90-percent of the costs and that includes emergency repsonse expenses.

Four Louisiana Universities are doing very poorly when it comes to fiscal health. Emelie Gunn has more…
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New Orleans Police have charged a 28-year-old man with a hate crime under the state’s new “Blue Lives Matter” law. A police report says Raul Delatoba used sexist and racist slurs against officers. Alexandria Representative Lance Harris says it’s up to the District Attorney’s office to determine if that charge will stick…
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The Louisiana A-C-L-U says charging someone for something they say violates our Free Speech rights.

A 15-year-old girl riding in a tailgate was killed and her 12-year-old sister was seriously injured in a head-on collision in Assumption Parish last night. It occurred as they were helping their mother place garbage bins on the side of the road and the vehicle they were in was facing the wrong way. Trooper Jesse LaGrange says the crash occurred at night, so it’s possible the driver of the other vehicle didn’t see the truck with the kids on it…
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