A Vidalia man who was wanted for a murder last week in Washington Parish has been arrested in Mississippi after a multi-state, parish, and county crime spree. Washington Parish Chief Deputy Mike Haley says investigators traveled to Harrison County to interview 51-year-old David Rester after he was arrested for a bank robbery in Waveland. Deputy Haley says Rester is accused of killing Marl Smith, and it’s a good thing he’s been captured…:

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As the cost of gasoline continues to rise, we all watch the Russia-Ukraine conflict and hope it will all end soon. LSU Center for Energy Studies director David Dismukes says production is the real problem; both abroad and here at home. He says oil and gas companies could ramp it back up, but the White House and Wall Street are making it difficult…:

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Gas is approaching $4  all over the state.

The 2022 legislative session begins a week from today and nearly 12-hundred bills have been filed. “LAPolitics.com” publisher Jeremy Alford says there are a wide variety of topics for legislators to debate…:

CUT 03(11)      “…college campuses.”

Alford says lawmakers will also have to approve a budget and decide how to spend two billion dollars in surplus money, much of it coming from the federal government. Expect debate on social issues like critical race theory, transgender athletes, vaccines, abortions and more.

The U.S. Department of Education announces it will give over $200-million to six Louisiana Historically Black Universities. The money will be divided up between Southern University, Grambling State, Southern in New Orleans, Xavier University, Dillard and Southern in Shreveport. The money is part of the president’s American Rescue Plan.