A Medicaid program that serves mentally ill children will remain intact after the Senate Health and Welfare Committee rejects a proposal to eliminate it. The administration proposed cutting the program by April 1 to save the state $2.2 million because of cuts made to the Department of Health in the special session. Lake Charles Senator Ronnie Johns is frustrated lawmakers didn’t use more rainy day dollars to avoid this..:
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Today, LSU officially introduced its new basketball coach, Will Wade. The 34-year-old got a crowd at the student union fired up when he said he knows LSU can have a successful basketball program…
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This will be Wade’s third head coaching stop.

Louisiana could lose 3.6 billion dollars in infrastructure and business if no action is taken to stop shoreline erosion. Emelie Gunn has more…
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The defense will present its case tomorrow in the Derrick Stafford trial. He’s the former Marksville City Marshal who is accused of fatally shooting a six-year-old autistic boy during a chase in 2015. Jurors heard today from a ballistics expert who said three of the four bullets in the boy’s body came from Stafford’s issued gun.