The latest campaign finance reports show Attorney General Jeff Landry with a clear financial advantage in the governor’s race; about $6-million in on-hand campaign cash….:

CUT 01(30)      “…Thorington.”

The state’s largest National Guard facility is getting a new name. Camp Beauregard, in Pineville, will be officially re-dubbed the Louisiana National Guard Training Center at Pineville at a ceremony to be held this fall. The renaming is to remove the name of General P.G.T. Beauregard, who fought for the South. Fort Polk in Vernon Parish will become Fort William Johnson; also later this year.

Louisiana has received 44-million dollars in tax revenue from sports betting since it became legal in Louisiana 17 months ago. Gaming Control Board Chairman Ronnie Johns says that’s a little more than what they expected…:

CUT 12(09)      “…sports betting revenue.”

Johns says gamblers have placed three-billion dollars’ worth in legal sports bets in the last 17 months.

A Senate committee advances a bill to increase penalties for producing drugs with fentanyl in them. Bill sponsor and Slidell Senator Sharon Hewitt says harsher punishment will decrease dealership. She says the same thing worked when heroin was a problem decades ago…:

CUT 10(08)      “…someplace else.”

The bill gives a minimum 10 years for a first conviction. Unopposed in committee, it moves to the Senate floor.