Pro-life groups are concerned about the views that new Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Rebekah Gee has on abortion. Michelle Southern reports…

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The two men charged in the kidnapping and murder of a Baton Rouge couple in October are scheduled to go before a grand jury today. 42-year-old Ernesto Alonso and 48-year-old Frank Garcia are each facing two counts of first degree murder and second degree kidnapping. The pair allegedly kidnapped and killed 71-year-old Denis Duplantier and his wife, 70-year-old Suzanne, during a robbery. The grand jury will determine if there is enough evidence to go forward with a trial.

Despite the state’s difficult budget challenges, Governor John Bel Edwards tells teachers there are no plans to cut funding for public schools. But Edwards added that there likely won’t be growth in the funding next fiscal year…

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Louisiana currently allocates three-point-seven billion dollars for public schools.

Federal money received as part of a nationwide disaster resiliency competition will be used to move Native Americans living in Isle de Jean Charles in Terrebonne Parish to safer ground. The plan is to have the members of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indian tribe relocated by 2019. Chief Albert Naquin says US Department of Housing and Urban Development officials toured the island earlier this week…

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Only 320 acres of the island remain and experts believe it will be completely submerged in 50 years.