4:30 PM Newscast June 3

The legislative session ends today, and lawmakers failed to approve a bill that would ban all edible THC products. Sean Richardson has more.

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Louisiana lawmakers have approved a 48-billion-dollar budget that includes a two-thousand-dollar stipend for teachers and hundreds of millions of dollars for infrastructure projects. House Appropriations Chairman Jack McFarland says teachers can expect their two-thousand-dollar stipend earlier next school year

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McFarland says the goal is to make that two-thousand-dollar stipend a permanent raise, but they need to see what future projections look like first.

Six Louisiana teams made the NCAA Baseball Tournament and only LSU is left.

Louisiana Tech’s magical season came to an end at the Fayetteville Regional. The Bulldogs won 45 games and a Conference USA Regular Season title. Coach Lane Burroughs says those are two great accomplishments, but the ultimate goal is a trip to the College World Series…

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Hockey is coming back to Northeast Louisiana, but you’ll have to wait until Wednesday to find out who the team is. Monroe Mayor Friday Ellis is encouraging the public to join him at the Monroe Civic Center Arena for a press conference Wednesday morning at ten when he announces the team’s name, shows off their uniforms and signs the team’s first player. Community members will be able to explore corporate partnership opportunities and have first dibs on exclusive merchandise.