School voucher advocates are hoping the legislature doesn’t come after their 40 million dollar program to pay for the Governor’s requested 39 million dollar public school funding increase. Matt Doyle has more.
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The GoFundMe campaign for the three historically black churches burned down in St. Landry parish has surpassed two million dollars. The website says over 37-thousand people have donated money to help rebuild the churches. The Seventh District Baptist Association says 100-percent of all funds will be evenly distributed to the three churches affected.

With this being Easter weekend, the demand for crawfish reaches its peak, but President of the Crawfish Research and Promotion board David Savoy says mudbugs are not hitting the traps like they should, so the supply is lower than normal for an Easter weekend…
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Savoy says the severe weather that hit the state yesterday also has hurt production.

With the hiring of Scott Woodward has LSU’s new athletics director, some Tiger fans are wondering what this might mean for football coach Ed Orgeron. Tiger Rag Editor James Moran says the seat is far from getting hot for Coach O
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Bad loss for the LSU baseball team last night as they were swamped by Florida 16-9. The Cajuns and La Tech also lost on the baseball diamond.