Tickets to the Garth Brooks/Trisha Yearwood shows in New Orleans go on sale this morning at 10am. Michelle Southern reports…:
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The legislative session ends in a week and lawmakers are struggling to send a revenue-neutral budget to Governor Bobby Jindal’s desk. Jeff Palermo has more…
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Lafayette police arrest a woman for second-degree murder after the discovery of a baby’s body left in a box for 14 years. Scott Carwile has the story….
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Tickets to the Garth Brooks/Trisha Yearwood shows in New Orleans go on sale this morning at 10am. The couple will be performing in Louisiana for the first time in 18 years on Friday July 10th and Saturday July 11th at the Smoothie King Center. General manager Alan Freeman says they expect tickets to go fast…:
The tickets, including fees, are $74.98 each and all seats are sold best available. Freeman says they’ll be drawing Garth fans from all over the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and western Florida…:
You can online buy tickets online at ticketmaster.com. Freeman says they will not be selling any tickets at their box office because Brooks is very particular about how he wants his shows sold..:
Cut 6 (10) “will get his tickets”
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There’s a week left in the 2015 legislative session and there’s great uncertainty over whether the legislature can pass a budget that will NOT be vetoed by Governor Bobby Jindal. Jeremy Alford, with la-politics-dot-com, says the legislature is struggling with putting together a spending plan that’s revenue neutral, which the governor has requested
Alford says there’s been a big push back from lawmakers against a higher education tax credit that could be used as an offset to the hundreds of million dollars in revenue generating bills approved by the House. He says if Jindal does veto the budget, we could see an override veto session…
Alford says even if the legislature sends Governor Jindal a revenue-neutral budget, it will likely contain tax increases to businesses in order to protect higher and health care from devastating cuts…
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Lafayette Police arrested a woman for second-degree murder after the discovery of an infant’s body that had been in a box for 14 years in a storage unit. Fifty-seven-year-old Rebecca Landry was booked into Lafayette Parish Jail for the death of the child. Corporal Nicole Benoit says police were notified after a man who purchased the storage unit discovered the body in a box.
Through their investigation, detectives have determined that the infant has been in the box since 2001. Benoit says Landry spoke with detectives, but the details of that conversation are private….
Benoit says police were able to find and arrest Landry the same day they were called to the scene of investigation
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This is the third Louisiana Radio Network Gubernatorial Question of the Week. We asked, “As Governor, how would you reform the Medicaid program? Would you accept federal dollars so more uninsured people can receive coverage?” Democratic State Representative John Bel Edwards says in Louisiana, Medicaid expansion would benefit 290,000 working poor people…:
US Senator David Vitter says the only way he’d consider accepting the federal dollars is if programs were reformed through a private coverage or some other model, ensure that it doesn’t lead to further cuts…:
Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne says he would work to convince the federal government to change the rules so we can begin considering expanding Medicaid…:
Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle says he would like to expand coverage for working families, but do so in a way that does not burden tax payers with an entitlement…:
Cut 16 (12) “for working families”
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Freshman Alex Lange will start on the mound for the LSU Tigers tomorrow night in game one of the super regional series against UL Lafayette. Lange is 11-0 with a 1.76 ERA. But LSU Coach Paul Mainieri will not be afraid to turn to his bullpen, even though they don’t have an established closer
LSU only scored four runs in the final two games of the Baton Rouge regional. Tigers center fielder Andrew Stevenson says they want to provide their pitchers with more run support…
UL Lafayette reached the Super Regionals last season, but lost to Ole Miss in the best of three series. Shortstop Blake Trahan says this super regional is a lot different than last year
Third baseman Tyler Girouard is one of a handful seniors on this squad. The former Teurlings Catholic star says there’s no bad blood between these two schools that are less than a hour apart…