Parents may not be able to count on the TOPS scholarship in the future.
The state funded scholarship program has run into funding troubles as part of the budget crisis. Certified financial planner Anne Osestriecher says people should prepare for having to pay their own tuition…:
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She entourages parents to research scholarships as many go unclaimed every year because students don’t apply for them.

President Barack Obama is expected to nominate a successor to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, but Louisiana’s Republican US senators say the next President should select Scalia’s replacement. Senator David Vitter is a member of the judiciary committee…:
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Republican Senator Bill Cassidy agrees.

A former department of children and family services case worker faces charges for claiming to check on foster care children while employed by the state, but didn’t. Emelie Gunn has more…:
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A man from Prairieville died after being hit by a vehicle in Ascension Parish. State Police say 34-year-old Brad Nickens was walking across the Black Bayou extension when, for unknown reasons, he walked into the path of a truck. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.