Governor Landry has used his line-item veto power to slash 12-million dollars from three budget bills. Jeff Palermo reports.

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LSU Health Shreveport Associate Professor Dr. Cory Coehoorn (KOO-horn) received a grant of over 200-thousand dollars to research heat-related illness in high school athletes, which he says is a major problem, especially in the south, and in football players.

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U-S Representative Julia Letlow won the Republican primary in the U-S Senate race on Saturday, taking 57 percent of the vote to defeat State Treasurer John Fleming.  Letlow who’s served in the U-S House since 2021 is now one step closer to replacing outgoing Senator Bill Cassidy…

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Letlow will face off November third with Tensas Parish crop farmer Jamie Davis, who easily won the Democratic Party nomination, receiving 80-percent of the vote to defeat Gary Crockett. Davis says Letlow has voted for policies that have made it harder on Louisiana families…

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