Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser suggests movie producers who film in Louisiana share their profits so the state can keep film tax exemptions in place. Halen Doughty has more…:
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One person is dead after a motorcyclist was hit by a school bus in St. Martin Parish Wednesday afternoon. State Police say 47-year-old Dennis Labbie of Breaux Bridge lost control of his motorcyclist and was ejected when he slide into the path of a St. Martin Parish school busy. Labbie was pronounced dead at a local hospital. The driver and the 6 passengers on the bus were not injured.
A study paid for by the Louisiana Cannabis Association finds medical marijuana could be a 200 to 330 million dollar industry, if the state loosens its restrictions on who could use the prescription drug. Spokesperson Jesse McCormick says under current law only about 4-thousand people can be legally prescribed medical marijuana…:
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He says if medical marijuana was expanded to those with chronic pain and other serious ailments, the number of eligible patients increases to as much as 105-thousand.
The band director of LSU’s Golden Band from Tigerland was put on paid administrative leave Wednesday. According to Roy King’s lawyer, King is a target of a witch hunt, which LSU denies.