The price of lumber has dropped precipitously after hitting a record high early last month. Louisiana Homebuilders Association President Tommy Pinion says the price is down about 45 percent in just over a month, great news for first-time homebuyers.
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Lumber peaked at 1,686 per thousand feet.

Senate Education Chairman Cleo Fields visits elementary schools in Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and Alexandria today and tomorrow to discuss his recently signed legislation that mandates five-year-olds to attend kindergarten. Fields expects to get questions from parents who home-school their children. He says they have two options for homeschooling…
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Governor Edwards has signed legislation that increases the compensation for individuals who are wrongfully convicted and served jail time. Gretna Representative Joe Marino says starting in July 2022, wrongfully convicted individuals will receive 40-thousand dollars, instead of 25-thousand dollars, for each year in jail. He says the maximum is 400-thousand dollars spread across ten years or a lump sum of 250-thousand dollars and the legislation is retroactive…
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Financial analysis of the legislation says 15 people are receiving annual compensation for a wrongful conviction.

The father of LSU senior pitcher Ma’Khail Hilliard, Keith Hillard, died in a tubing accident on the Amite River. Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard…
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Ard believes the death will be ruled an accidental drowning after Keith Hilliard went under the water and never came up.