The Louisiana Film and Entertainment Association drops plans to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new law that capped the film tax credit program. Michelle Southern has the story…
cut 1 (30) “…reporting”

The longtime secretary of former Lafayette Parish District Attorney Mike Harson has been sentenced to 18 months in a federal prison. Sixty-one-year-old Barna Haynes pleaded guility in 2013 for her role in a bribery scheme that involved DWI offenders. She’s been ordered to report to prison by August 20th.

An automated telphone survey conducted by Mississippi-based Triumph Campaigns finds Republican US Senator David Vitter and Democratic State representative John Bel Edwards neck and neck in the governor’s race. Vitter received 31-percent of the vote, while Edwards had 30-percent in a poll of 16-hundred voters. Jeremy Alford of la-politics-dot-com says this poll resembeles similar surveys…
cut 3 (06) “…for a run-off”
The automated poll did not reach cell phone users and it did not ask voters who they would vote for in a run-off.

State Police has issued a traffic advisory as the result of lane closures that will take place this weekend in Grosse Tete, just west of the I-10 Mississippi Bridge. Trooper Bryan Lee says the lane closure is for road improvement work. He says construction crews will be present so use caution…
cut 11 (11) “…distractions”