The House Appropriations Committee is discussing a proposed budget for next fiscal year. Chairman Cameron Henry is proposing to reduce state funding to the department of health by 150-million dollars….
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Henry is seeking to pass a budget that reduces state spending by 237-million dollars than what the governor proposed as a way to avoid midyear budget cuts.

Two people are dead after a private plane went down in Morehouse Parish. Sheriff Mike Tubbs says his deputies received a call yesterday afternoon in reference to a plane that went down in Collinston near the Morehouse Detention Center.
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Authorities have yet to release the identities of the victims.

The Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s office is mourning the death of deputy Justin Beard, who was killed in a single vehicle wreck while responding to a burglar alarm. O-P-S-O spokesperson Glenn Springfield…
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Beard was a deputy at OPSO for over three years and leaves behind a wife and three young children.

President Donald Trump has reached 100 days in office, but what does that mean for Louisiana? ULM political science professor Dr. Joshua Stockley says there’s been very little direct policy change at the federal level under the new administration…:
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Stockley calls Mr. Trump’s first 100 days turbulent and unorthodox.