A Common Core lawsuit brought against BESE and the Department of Education will be heard in court today. Matthew Doyle spoke to legal analyst Tim Meche…

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Senator Mary Landrieu is facing accusations that she used Senate money to pay for chartered flights to attend campaign events. LSU Political Science Professor Robert Hogan doesn’t see this as a big campaign issue…

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Landrieu’s campaign says they will reimburse the Senate for both flights in question.

The Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control announce that they issued nearly 900 citations to Louisiana establishments for selling alcohol and tobacco to minors as a result of their 2014 Summer Crackdown operation. Commissioner Troy Hebert says in most cases it’s the clerk, not the business owner, illegally selling to minors. He says it’s easy to tell if someone is a minor in Louisiana since their driver’s licence is printed vertically…

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He says they conducted 6,500 compliance checks during their summer crackdown with about 14 percent of businesses being cited.

Governor Bobby Jindal has appointed former Congressman Jim McCrery of Shreveport to the LSU Board of Supervisors. McCrery left Congress in 2009. Jindal worked as a summer intern for McCrery when he was a student at Brown University. McCrery replaces Shreveport doctor John George who resigned.