Early Childhood Education Advocates are urging the Louisiana Senate to spend more dollars on the Child Care Assistance Program. Sean Richardson reports the Louisiana House’s proposed budget keeps funding at the same level as this year…
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And state lawmakers now have an additional 139-million dollars to spend next fiscal year. The Revenue Estimating Conference recognized the additional cash after hearing from economists who project the amount of revenue the state will collect after July 1st. Senate President Cameron Henry says the additional dollars could fund more criminal justice improvements, economic development initiatives and some lawmakers want to see the state spend 30-million dollars to keep a high-dosage tutoring program going.
Livingston Parish once again teamed up with former Dateline NBC correspondent Chris Hansen in an online sex sting. This time, nine men were arrested, including two registered sex offenders and one man who brought a loaded gun to the sting house. Sheriff Jason Ard says the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force set up the operation in March and April, creating a fake social media profile.
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An LSU student and an alleged gang member were among the nine people arrested.
At the end of the month, Louisiana’s Treasurer’s Office will send out 143-thousand unclaimed property checks totaling over 34 million dollars. State Treasurer John Fleming says there are about 25-hundred people receiving unclaimed property that’s higher than their maximum for an automatic check…
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The unclaimed property checks are blue and it will have a logo that says Your Money…Claim It.