In his first public comments since election night, Governor Edwards says he’s not daunted by the near supermajority Republicans will have in the new Legislature. The GOP is two seats shy in the House from overriding governor vetoes. Edwards says he’s worked with both sides of the aisle before, and just because the Capitol is red and he’s blue, doesn’t mean they can’t move the state forward.
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Edwards will be sworn in on January 13th.

That’s the same day as the college football playoff championship game in New Orleans. Louisiana native Tim McGraw is one of several musical acts who will perform for free that weekend in Woldenberg Park…
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Lafayette native Lauren Daigle will sing the national anthem before the game. For more information go to college-foot-ball-playoff-dot-com.

Louisiana scores an A on Shared Hope International’s yearly child sex trafficking legal report card, but founder Linda Smith says we have one glaring problem that needs to be fixed…
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A jury from East Baton Rouge Parish will now get an opportunity to decide if Grover Cannon should be sentenced to death for the 2015 killing Shreveport police officer Thomas LaValley. The 12-person panel came to a first-degree murder verdict last night after six days of testimony. Cannon took the stand in his own defense and said he was framed by police.