Authorities say 4 people were injured in a shooting last night outside Hammond High School’s graduation which was held on the campus of Southeastern Louisiana University. One person is in custody. Tangipahoa Parish Schools Superintendent Melissa Stilley says shots rang out as students were leaving the ceremony to meet relatives outside the building…:
Cut 16 (11) “…sad note.”
They don’t believe students were involved.
The state’s $39-billion budget reaches final passage. Governor Edwards is expected to sign the budget bill, but will he use his privilege of the line-item veto before he does? Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says, if he does, it will be sparingly.
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LSU will be awarding a record number of degrees with more than 45-hundred students expected to cross the stage this weekend. But will those degrees translate into employment? Economist Dr. Loren Scott says nearly every industry in the state has complained about the lack of available workers.
Cut 8 (09) “…we’re seeing that.”
After a bill to charge a woman with murder if she has an abortion was heard in the Louisiana House, Kathleen Pittman, Director of the Hope Medical Group for Women, which provides abortion services in Shreveport says abortion laws in states are becoming even more restrictive and doing so only puts more women in danger.
The bill was heavily amended and then returned to the calendar by the bill’s author. It’s anticipated that Roe V Wade is about to be overturned by the Supreme Court.