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Louisiana’s Republican House delegation is upset Kevin McCarthy has been voted out as House Speaker. Jeff Palermo has the story…

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And Representative Scalise has announced his intention to run. In a letter He asked for his colleagues’ support and says wants to be the next speaker of the house. Scalise says he is and has been committed to a conservative agenda. Scalise says he is concerned about drugs and our open borders and that every state is now a border state. Scalise.

Thirty-three-year-old Ian Howard accepts a plea deal that will spare him the death sentence in the fatal shooting Lafayette Police Corporal Michael Middlebrook in 2017who was gunned down in the line of duty. Howard also shot two store employees and another officer. Lafayette DA Don Landry says Howard received a life sentence for a killing an officer, but also gets 50 years each for shooting three others…

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Howard was set to stand trial in March.

It’s Energy Efficiency Day and Cleco is launching their newly designed online energy-savings store, ClecoMarketplace-dot-com. Marianne Addy of Cleco says energy efficiency can be hard to understand. They help simplify the process and all of their products are guaranteed by the marketplace and manufacturers.