East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore has announced that over half of the protesters who were arrested following the shooting death of Alton Sterling will not face charges. Moore says he will not prosecute about 100 of the cases, because the demonstrators were arrested only on misdemeanor counts, simple obstruction of a highway.

Authorities in Baton Rouge have arrested a fourth person who was allegedly involved in a pawn shop burglary where guns were stolen that would be used to kill police officers. The East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s office says a 12-year-old male juvenile was booked into the Juvenile Detention Center. Three other suspects are also in custody

Louisiana’s health department says enrollment for the state’s expanded Medicaid program, known as Healthy Louisiana, has reached 250-thousand new adults. According to the L-D-H, Healty Louisiana will bring health insurance coverage to an estimated 375-thousand working Louisianans.

The state Department of Education has announced Sedric Clark, the principal at Mansfield High in DeSoto Parish is the principal of the year, while Joni Smith, a seventh grade science teacher at Albany Middle School in Livingston Parish is the teacher of the year. An awards banquet was held last night.

Running back Leonard Fournette, center Ethan Pocic, linebacker Kendell Beckwith and cornerback Tre’Davious White are the four LSU players who made the media’s preseason All-SEC team. Fournette rushed for nearly two-thousand yards and 22 touchdowns last season. He was asked at SEC Media Days, how he can improve on those numbers in 2016…
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A three-year-old horse bred in Arkansas named “Fournette” won in his first ever race at Belmont Race Track in New York. His odds to win at post time were 14-to-1. Fournette’s owner is from Hot Springs and is a big LSU fan.