Baton Rouge Representative Franklin Foil halts his effort to raise the minimum GPA required for high school students to receive the TOPS scholarship. Foil told Senate Education a task force will be formed to examine TOPS and he’ll wait to see their findings before pursing his legislation…
Cut 15 (09) “that reason”

Colorado State University hurricane researchers have updated their 2017 Atlantic hurricane season forecast as it begins today. State Climatologist Barry Keim says the forecast now calls for 13 named storms.He says the US has gone 11 straight seasons without a major hurricane landfall. He says the last one was Wilma in 2005.

Cut 5 (12) “a major hurricane”

CSU finds there is a 32 percent chance a hurricane will make landfall on the Gulf Coast.

State Police have arrested the man who allegedly hit and killed a 12-year-old boy during a police chase. Trooper Bryan Lee says 32-year-old Joshual Hilton of Baton Rouge faces multiple charges including manslaughter and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. He says investigators are reconstructing the scene where Sammy Lee was run over…
Cut 7 (09) “was struck”

The Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested a couple for aggravated assault after the man and girlfriend allegedly attacked the man’s mother with a cast iron skillet. Chief Deputy Mike Haley says Venus Camacho and Kurtis Strong started attacking Strong’s mother after an argument and Strong ended up severely injuring her by throwing the skillet at her head. He says this is extremely disrespectful.
Cut 14 (06) “unacceptable”

Strong is charged with two counts of aggravated battery and domestic abuse battery by strangulation.