06:30 Newscast, April 7th, 2016

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.