Lafayette Travel heads up to Michigan today to help with the state’s recent crawfish invasion. Emelie Gunn has more…:
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Powerball’s jackpot reached an estimated $510 million early Thursday. The game’s website said no winning tickets matched all the numbers in Wednesday night’s drawing. The new jackpot’s cash value was roughly $324.2 million. The next drawing is scheduled for Saturday night.

Governor John Bel Edwards said his talk with House Speaker Taylor Barras on Wednesday was a productive one. They are trying to come up with a plan everyone can agree on for how to plug next year’s projected $1.1 billion dollar budget gap next fiscal year. Edwards says it will take more cuts and more money to fill the looming budget hole…:
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Edwards called the meeting with Barras a good, frank exchange.

The Tulane Basketball team is in Barcelona right now for some exhibition games, and have tweeted that they are all safe and accounted for after a van plowed into pedestrians. Police told local media outlets that there are fatalities and they believe the driver acted intentionally.