Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell is speaking out against Constitutional Amendment 3. that would give teachers a permanent two-thousand-dollar pay raise funded in part through the retirement of three trust funds, one of which, the Educational Excellence Fund, Campbell helped create as a state senator in 1999. He says a better idea, in his view, is to tax imports on foreign oil – something he’s proposed for many years. And he says he believes the main reason for lawmakers to put this Amendment on the ballot is not out of concern for teachers – it’s out of concern for themselves.
Cut 5 (05) “…that’s good politics.”
The wife of a Fort Polk soldier has been released from a federal immigration detention facility. Twenty-two-year-old Annie Ramos is Honduran-born but has lived in the U-S since she was a toddler. Ramos tells the Associated Press she’s been trying to gain legal status.
The alleged drunk driver who crashed in a crowd of people at the Lao New Year Festival in Iberia Parish remains behind bars on a 247-thousand-dollar bond. At a press conference today, State Police Trooper Monique Lavergne said Landry showed signs of impairment at the scene and a breath sample indicated his blood alcohol content was .137, well over the legal limit…
Cut 13 (08) “…crowded settings.”
Iberia Sheriff Tommy Romero says the 18 people injured are expected to survive their injuries.
Through the first quarter of 2026, small businesses in Louisiana and across the country have been having a hard time filling job openings. Leah Long, the state director of the National Federation of Independent Business, says it’s not due of a lack of candidates; it’s a lack of QUALIFIED candidates.