Cardell Hayes will likely serve at least 20 years in prison after being found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of former-Saints player Will Smith. Michelle Southern gets an analysis on the verdict…
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Today Governor John Bel Edwards announces that Louisiana will receive nearly 26 million dollars in funding for the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program by FEMA for the devastating March floods. The money could be used to support state and parish projects to help prevent disasters in the future. The state will receive 3 million dollars and 23- million dollars will go to parishes that received a federal disaster deceleration.

 
Republican state representative Mike Johnson is the runaway winner in the 4th congressional district race as expected. Johnson won the seat vacated by John Fleming. Johnson says our government is too large and it’s doing too many things wrong…
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Johnson says the Republican wave moving across the nation means that God has given the nation another chance…:

The Louisiana GOP says with the Republican sweep of federal runoff elections on Saturday, it’s proof the Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards’ election was a fluke. Executive Director of the State Republican Party Jason Dore says Foster Campbell didn’t lose the U.S. Senate race because he’s a Democrat, it’s because he’s tied to the governor.
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But Democrats did get a win in Baton Rouge as Sharon Weston Broome was elected as Mayor/President.