Governor Landry wants to shift West Feliciana Parish’s federal judicial districts. Andre Champagne reports while Landry stated his reason to Congress, there’s an ulterior motive in play.
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Detectives with the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested a 19-year-old Alexandria man this week in connection with a February 19th shooting on there. We’re told 19 year old Kendale Codray Wilkins was tracked to a residence on Live Oak Street, there he was arrested without incident.
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Governor Landry is going to have another tough sell on his hands with the L-A GATOR program. That’s the voucher program that provides tax dollars to allow parents to, among other things, send their kids to private schools. Senate President Cameron Henry is looking to keep funding at 43.5-million dollars, while Landry wants to bump it to 88-million, which Henry says is untenable.
Now that Tony the crawfish has been pardoned, crawfish season is officially underway – and that means it’s time to start tracking crawfish prices. Laney King is the co-founder of The Crawfish App. ($4.50/lb. for live crawfish; $7.25/lb. for boiled crawfish)
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Though prices now are about $1.50 a pound higher than what they typically are at the official outset of crawfish season, King says she expects them to come down about $2.50 a pound between now and Mother’s Day.