State Police announced today that Louisiana is the first state that will equip all state troopers with body cameras. Don Molino has more…
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Governor John Bel Edwards calls 2016 a challenging year. Edwards says he entered office and immediately addressed an unprecedented budget deficit by making cuts and raising revenues through tax increases…:
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He say the most difficult day was July 17th, that’s when three police officers were killed in Baton Rouge.

Louisiana wildlife and fisheries secretary Charlie Melancon tells the Associated Press that he’s resigning immediately, because people in the office are making it difficult for him to implement reforms to improve the department’s finances. After clashing with recreational fishermen and employees with L-D-W-F, it was announced that Melancon would leave in February, but he’s decided to step down now.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries confirms the first sighting of a wild cougar in the state since 2011. It said a trail camera picture sent to the department in November out of Morehouse Parish is authentic. L-D-W-F biologist Maria Davidson says this is unusual as there is no cougar population here:
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She says they move so fast that there is little chance the cougar would still be in Northeast Louisiana.