Dozens of students marched to the state capitol in efforts to protest the proposed cuts to higher education to offset the massive budget deficit. A graduate of Nicholls State University and LSU, Peter Jenkins, attended the Save our Schools rally to make legislators pay attention and stop these drastic measures…:
cut 12 (08) “focusing on”
Students chanted in efforts to oppose future cuts to higher education…:
cut 15 (11) “no future”

One of the men suspected of killing an Angola prison guard decades ago pleaded no contest to lesser charges Friday and was ordered to be released from prison. 69-year-old Albert Woodfox is the last of the Angola Three still incarcerated.

The ACLU of Louisiana responds to the latest rather aggressive Crime Stoppers viral video by St. Landry Parish’s Captain Clay Higgins looking for wanted Gremlins Gang members. Emelie Gunn reports..:
CUT 1 (28) “I’m Emelie Gunn”

A new poll from Invest in a Healthy Louisiana and Public Opinion Strategies finds increasing the tobacco tax is favored by seven out of 10 voters. Pollster Glen Bolger says the survey polled 500 likely Louisiana voters and many people are opposed to hikes in the state’s income, sales or property taxes, but favor an increase to the state’s tobacco tax..:
CUT 9 (07) “strongly favor”