Lawmakers have until midnight tonight to come to an agreement on how many rainy day dollars to use to address a $304 million midyear deficit. Jeff Palermo has more…
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A study out of Tulane finds 17-hundred public school teachers have left their jobs in Louisiana because of a tougher tenure law which took effect two years ago. The report says many of the educators that left were close to retirement or worked in low-performing schools. Student achievement is now part of the formula to earn tenure.

Tonight’s Powerball jackpot has reached a whopping 403 million dollars, with a cash value of 244 million dollars. Louisiana Lottery Spokesperson Kimberly Chopin says this drawing is the 19th in the current run…:
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She says this is the 10th largest Powerball jackpot ever.

There are plans to film a movie called “Cowboy and Indiana” in the Monroe area. Executive producer Rodney Ray it’s about a troubled bull rider named Tulsa who struggles with a pain pill addiction and finds himself charged with a DUI…
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Ray says they plan to begin filiming in late May and over one-thousand actors from all over the country have applied for roles in the film.