Today marks 100 days in office for Governor John Bel Edwards. Edwards has already faced many challenges in office, inheriting the largest budget deficit in state history and a legislature that doesn’t see eye to eye with the governor. But Edwards says it’s about making choices that solve these problems in the best possible way for the people of Louisiana….:
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Edwards says he is most proud of Medicaid expansion.

The Louisiana Department of Education suspends the license of a daycare in St. Tammany Parish after state officials found out they didn’t notice 4 toddlers escape the playground and wander into a busy road in Abita Springs. They also say staff did not report the incident which is an additional violation. Abita Church Christian Daycare was cited for not reporting, not supervising the toddlers who got out and improper fencing on the playground.

A former police officer in St. Martin Parish plead guilty to his part in a ticket-writing scheme on Interstate 10. Ex-Henderson assistant police chief, Oliver Mack Lloyd, received a suspended sentence of six months in jail. St. Martin Parish prosecutor Chester Cedars says Lloyd orchestrated a plan where officers received bonuses for writing traffic tickets…:
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Lloyd pleaded guilty to a change of false accounting.

Saints and Pelicans owner Tom Benson will not have just one, but two horses who will run in the Kentucky Derby on May 7th. Mo Tom and Tom’s Ready will part of the field of 20 horses who will run for the Roses at Churchill Downs.

Governor John Bel Edwards says he’s got 16 chickens that he keeps at the governor’s mansion. He said, however, there is no rooster he could keep on good terms with the neighbors.