A bill that would raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.25 an hour meets failure in a Senate committee. Monroe Senator Stewart Cathey says if you require businesses to raise wages, they’ll raise prices on consumers…:

CUT 12(11)      “…to live.”

Only one committee member, the bill’s sponsor, voted for the bill.

A Union Parish prison inmate is on the run, after killing a work-release program co-worker then fleeing the scene. Union Sheriff Dusty Gates says 48-year-old Bruce Causey is from Baton Rouge and is more than likely on his way there now. He says Causey stabbed the unidentified victim to death, as the two argued…:

CUT 11(08)      “…motive behind it.”

You remember Ciaya (KEYE-uh) Whetstone? The New Orleans area college student who turned up dead last February, after an Uber driver dropped her at a hospital ER? A blood toxicology report shows she died from poisoning by fentanyl and ethanol. Ciaya’s family still wants to know why the ride share driver dropped her unconscious self at an ER without calling 9-1-1.

Governor John Bel Edwards and state leaders rode on a passenger train from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, a concept talked about for a long time. Michelle Southern has more…:

CUT 01(31)      “…I’m Michelle Southern.”