State lawmakers have until 5 PM today to turn in their ballot on the governor’s plan to provide teachers with a two-thousand-dollar stipend and a one-thousand dollar stipend for school support workers. To pay for the stipend, 168-million dollars will be taken away that go towards operating costs for public schools. It will take a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate for legislators to approve the governor’s teacher pay plan. Advocate newspaper education reporter Patrick Wall says there could be consequences for lawmakers and their districts if they vote against the governor.

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More than 151-thousand people voted during the early voting period that wrapped up last Saturday. John Couvillon of JMC Analytics and Polling says turnout was high in East Baton Rouge, as there are three high-profile tax renewal measures on the ballot…

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The 128-million-dollar I-20 reconstruction project in Bossier and Caddo parishes was completed yesterday after nearly three years. Kace Kieschnick reports.

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The state has been hit with another round of severe weather, this time in northwest Louisiana. Hundreds of customers are without power in Caddo and Bossier parishes. In Claiborne Parish, authorities say a woman and a child were rescued from a car in two feet deep water in Homer.