Starting July 1st, Governor John Bel Edwards says he hopes to have 300,000 healthcare cards into the hands of low-income people who are newly eligible for Medicaid. The Governor signed his first executive order today and it expands the federally funded health insurance program. Edwards says this will help keep the working poor from slipping further into poverty..:
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Edwards says to qualify, a family or individual must have income at 138% of the federal poverty level.

BP says they plan to cut an additional 4,000 jobs this year, including from oil production operations in the United States. The company did not say how many people in the US would be laid off. Benchmark US crude today fell below $30 a barrel before settling at $30.44 at the close. Tuesday’s statewide average for a gallon of gas was $1.74 according to AAA.

The NCAA has announced sanctions against UL-Lafayette as a result of a former assistant football coach violating rules by arranging fraudulent entrance exam scores for five prospects. Eric Gill reports…:
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The University is now suing ACT Inc seeking damages for failure to detect fake test results.

The worlds largest jackpot was raised again today. The Powerball is now $1.5 billion. If you go into a work pool, legal analyst Tim Meche says trust the person in charge…:
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