The Senate Education Committee approves two bills addressing the funding issues around the TOPS scholarship program. One measure would cap the amount students currently receive and it won’t go any higher if even tuition increases. West Monroe Senator Mike Walsworth opposed this bill last year, but he’s heard from many of students worried about the future of TOPS….
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Governor Edwards supports the legislation.

The director of the famous LSU Golden Band from Tigerland, Roy King, has been placed on paid administrative leave, and his lawyer says it’s because of a witch hunt. King’s attorney Craft says it isn’t clear what the probe hopes to uncover, and there is a big problem with placing someone irresponsibly on paid administrative leave…
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Craft says King has been there for 18 years and is well liked by his students.

 
The extreme flooding across Louisiana last month has cost the agriculture industry close to 15 million dollars. LSU AgCenter economist Kurt Guidry nearly 4 million dollars in corn was lost and it’ll cost farmers about 150 dollars per acre to replant. He says another commodity affected was wheat.
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He says hundreds of cattle died after their pastures were flooded.

A Natches man has been arrested after killing his estranged wife and another man multiple times in their Vidalia home, while the woman’s children were sleeping. Vidalia Assistant Police Chief Bruce Wiley says Curt Thornton and his estranged wife Angela Thornton were reportedly having problems, so Thornton allegedly shot her and 36-year-old Ken Tibbs.
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Wiley says the female child called 911 at 7 a.m. when she found her mom dead.