The third special session of 2018 will begin a week from today and must end June 27th. Governor John Bel Edwards is still looking for a fix to the fiscal cliff. The governor’s Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Carbo says after the legislature failed to replace a large portion of the 1.4 billion dollars in temporary taxes that expire June 30th, they had no choice but to give it one more shot….
Cut 14 (11) “unfunded”

Your child can now go to school with a bulletproof backpack as a result of legislation that passed in the regular session. West Monroe Senator Michael Walsworth hopes a child never has to use a bulletproof backpack, but if a shooter comes on campus, it could save a student’s life…
cut 9 (10) “….the child”

The state department of transportation is asking for the public’s help in reducing the number of crashes that happen on I-10 just west of the Mississippi River Bridge. Traffic usually slows up in that area and state department of transportation spokesperson Rodney Mallett says they’ve found out that 77-percent of the 800 accidents that happen annually on that stretch of highway is the result of distracted driving…
cut 6 (05) “…in front of them”

A decomposing body of a female was found over the weekend on a levee in St. Landry Parish in Port Barre. Sheriff Bobby Guidroz told a Lafayette TV station the victim is a missing person out of St. Martin Parish, but there has been no public release of her identity.