The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested an 18-year-old for allegedly fatally shooting an Arkansas man, who was in town for a birthday celebration. Ladarrius Evans of Hammond faces several charges including first-degree murder. The victim, Paul Holt, was set to turn 63 yesterday. The shooting happened Saturday morning during a carjacking.

The Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence is urging lawmakers to provide dollars for domestic violence shelters
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The House has approved its budget plan for the next fiscal year and the Senate will approve its version in the next month. The House version does not contain 51-million dollars in early childhood education funding to provide pre-K education to an estimated eight thousand children, which is disturbing for Libby Sonnier, the executive director of the Louisiana Policy Institute for Children…
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Sonnier says they hope the Senate will include the 51-million dollars in its budget proposal.

We’re over five months away from the governor’s election in October and two candidates have been running TV ads, Jeff Landry and John Schroder. A PAC supporting Stephen Waguespack is set to begin airing TV ads today and la-politics-dot-com publisher, Jeremy Alford, says Hunter Lundy will soon release his first TV ads. Alford says Lundy has support from two groups you normally don’t see paired together….
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