Governor John Bel Edwards was at University Hospital and Clinics in Lafayette. It’s a public-private partner hospital that sent warning notices to employees that they could be laid off after July 1st because of cuts in health care funding. Edwards says legislators need to pass revenue bills in a special session to avoid hospital closures…
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Edwards says renewing a portion of an expiring one-cent sales tax will help fill the budget hole.

An off-duty Slidell Police officer helped out an 83-year-old Baton Rouge woman, who was kidnapped…
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McKneely says officer Dennis Neyland saw the woman was in distress and ended up fighting off the suspect, 42-year-old Tamikia Raymond, who was arrested.

The state posted all time highs in the numbers of students who graduated high school in four years, and the number of students who qualified for TOPS. Matt Doyle has more.
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The legislature has passed a bill that lowers the number of signatures needed for a recall vote of an elected official to occur. Mandeville Representative Paul Hollis says it’s still difficult, but now doable…
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