With only 8 days left in the special legislative session, legislators are slowly working to fix Louisiana’s massive budget deficit. Ruston Representative Robert Shadoin says there will likely be some changes to the House’s budget cut bill because those cuts went deeper than anticipated. He says he didn’t want to vote for the sales tax increase but it had to be done…

cut 13 (10)  “higher education”

A Financial Aid Working Group is meeting today to create a plan to ensure public high school students comply with a new policy requiring them to apply for assistance to go to college. Department of Education’s Assistant Superintendent Ken Bradford says only 44% of students are applying for any kind of financial aid.  He says the group is also discussing how schools can be more helpful in getting financial aid for students.

Cut 11 (07) “in 2018″

A report from Bankrate-dot-com finds Louisiana is the 5th worst state for retirement.

CUT 1 (28)  “I’m Halen Doughty”

Baton Rouge Police have arrested a man after a DNA test linked in to a 20-year-old rape case. Sgt. Don Coppola says in 1996 a 17-year-old girl was walking down the street and asked now 59-year-old Jerry Williams for a ride, where he then took her to his house and raped her. He says during the initial investigation, detectives had trouble re-contacting the victim so the case went unsolved…

CUT 8 (08) “was found”