Skimming devices, which document credit card numbers, keep popping up on gas pumps throughout the state…

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Governor John Bel Edwards’ Medicaid expansion plan will get its first legislative test today. The Edwards administration is seeking to hire health department workers to sign residents up for the expanded coverage. The joint House and Senate budget committee is expected to consider the hiring plan today. The proposal would cost $10.3 million this budget year, that would be paid by the federal government and health providers.

Former state legislator and Alcohol and Tobacco Control Commissioner Troy Hebert announces he’s running for the US Senate. A television station reported this week that Hebert is being investigated by the FBI for allegedly receiving sexual favors from a New Orleans woman who was having trouble with their liquor license. Hebert says those accusations are completely false…

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Hebert will run for Senate as an Independent.

The Department of Transportation is alerting drivers of a single lane closure beginning today on eastbound I-10 in West Baton Rouge Parish just before the Mississippi River Bridge. DOTD Spokesperson Rodney Mallett says construction is necessary to maintain the integrity of the roadway. But he says they tried to schedule the road work during times with the least amount of traffic.

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Mallett says visit 511-LA-dot-org for current traffic updates.