About 2,000 workers have been assembled by Entergy to help restore power as quickly as possible, following the severe storms across South Louisiana yesterday. Enteregy Spokesman Will Johnson says it could take a little longer for customers where damage is more severe…
CUT 5 (08) “those numbers down”
Johnson adds most Louisiana customers should have power back by Tuesday night.

The House Ways and Means Committee approves three different bills that would cap the state’s film tax credit program. Alexandria Representative Lance Harris, says when the credits began in 2002, it was based on the understanding that the industry would be self-sufficient…
CUT 7 (10) Q; ‘and parties’
Some supporters of the credit say that a cap on the program will chase away future TV and film production.
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According to the latest campaign finance numbers, gubenatorial candidate Republican Senator David Vitter has $4.2 million cash on hand, and that’s more than the other three candidates combined. UL-Lafayette Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says money talks in political races…
CUT 11 (10) Q: “almost always wins”

In St. Tammany Parish, authorities say the woman who was shot in the head allegedly by her ex-boyfriend–then drove herself to the hospital–is going to survive. Sheriff Jack Strain says she’s in the lucky-to-be-alive department…
CUT 15 (08) Q: ‘in my book’
56-year-old Ronald Brown of Pearl River is being held without bond in the St. Tammany Parish Jail.