Governor Edwards is recommending to legislative leaders to use federal money to close a one-billion-dollar budget hole that’s been caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne says a portion of the rainy day fund can be used as well, leaving just 80-million dollars in cuts
Dardenne says this plan would keep the TOPS scholarship program fully funded.
27-year-old woman is dead, and nine people are being treated at a hospital from severe weather that hit a rural area in northeast Acadia Parish last night. The one fatality took place on Prudence Highway north of Church Point. Sheriff KP Gibson says the loss of life could have been much worse as many residents were unprepared for the impact of the severe weather.
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The price of oil has soared to over 30 dollars a barrel after sinking to negative numbers just a month ago. LSU Center for Energy Studies Executive Director David Dismukes explains why…
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Dismukes says today’s notable spike was the result of a coronavirus vaccine trial that’s showing promising early results
The search continues for the gunmen involved in a mass shooting that wounded 13 people in Bogalusa on Saturday night. Major Wendell O’ Berry says between 500 to 800 people gathered at an intersection to remember the life of Dominique James, who was recently murdered. O’ Berry says as the crowd grew shots were fired…
O’ Berry says 12 of the 13 victims were male and some are critically wounded.