State legislators can’t take a break from budget negotiations. They only have until midnight on Wednesday to figure out how to close a 304-million dollar midyear deficit. Baton Rouge Republican Representative Rick Edmonds does not support the Senate’s bill that uses 99-million dollars from the rainy day fund…
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Governor John Bel Edwards calls the use of 99-million dollars in rainy day money an acceptable compromise.

State Police is looking into a report by the Advocate newspaper that shows four state troopers made unnecessary stops to the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas while driving to a law enforcement conference in San Diego. L-S-P Superintendent, Colonel Mike Edmonson, says he’ll make sure this kind of behavior doesn’t happen again….
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Do you feel politically stressed? A report from the American Psychological Association finds, no matter what party you are, anxiety over political matters is at an all time high. Michelle Many (Main-eee) with the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans finds the principle factor in this deals with social relationships:
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She says they mostly see that this is due to constant social and other media viewing, and the best way to calm do is to avoid that type of activity.

The search is ongoing for three escaped Avoyelles Parish inmates. Sheriff Doug Anderson says 31-year-old Blake Reine, 23-year-old Joseph James, and 22-year-old Andre Steward escaped from a detention center near Bunkie on Saturday night.
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