The US Justice Department reaches an agreement with Louisiana to help ensure people with serious mental illnesses are not living in a nursing home. Matt Doyle has the details.
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Could we see the release of 10-thousand inmates after July 1st. State Corrections Secretary Jimmy LeBlanc says it will happen, unless the legislature replaces some of the temporary sales taxes that are set to expire on June 30th. Governor Edwards will give legislators another chance at passing tax bills before the end of the month as the call for a third special session this year could come out today.

Nicholls State has a new program, called CROWN, aimed at helping black students stay in college, and finish their degree. The university discovered only 53 percent of African American men returned after their freshman year. CROWN administrator Dr. Sean Chadwell says in many cases the young black men who dropped out of college after one year are the first member of their family to go to college.
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The program pairs freshmen with upper classmen who will mentor and guide the students through their early years.

LSU scientists predict the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone is expected to be larger than Connecticut this summer. Fertilizer, urban runoff and sewage flowing down the Mississippi River and into the Gulf creates the dead zone, which is an area of water which lacks oxygen, forcing fish to flee and killing sea life…
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That’s LSU researcher Doctor Eugene Turner.