The Louisiana House approved a bill that creates the Gator Scholarship Program that will provide families with state dollars that can be used to pay for private school tuition. Opponents have expressed concerns about the program’s costs. One estimate had it at 500-million dollars a year once all families would become eligible. Carencro Representative Julie Emerson says BESE will determine how much tuition money gets handed out and when to make higher-income families eligible…
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The legislation needs Senate approval of House changes before it heads to the governor’s desk.

Governor Landry has already signed a law that bans the retail sale of nitrous oxide. It’s currently sold at convenience stores for food preparation, but Kenner Representative Joseph Stagni says some are using it to get high…
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The new law will go into effect August 1st.

Two of the four inmates who escaped the Tangipahoa Parish Jail over the Memorial Day weekend are still on the loose. Sean Richardson has more.
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Two people are dead after a fishing barge capsized in the Pirates Cove area of Toledo Bend Lake. The Sabine Parish Sheriff’s office says there were six people on the barge and four swam to safety. The bodies of two people who drowned have been recovered.