State Attorney General Jeff Landry has announced a drug prescription takeback box is now available 24 hours a day at the Baton Rouge Police Department. Landry also addressed the drug problem taxing the state and says statistics show the problem may be related to recent Medicaid expansion.
Cut 6 (10) “Medicaid expansion.”

State Education Superintendent John White released school performance scores and this is the last year public schools will be graded on a curve. White says 272 schools statewide received D or F grades for three straight years or saw high school graduation rates less than 67-percent. He says all improvements starts with an awareness of where there have been successes and challenges.
Cut 11 (10) “education”

 
The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of 44-year-old Brian Tumas who was found dead on the street where he lived. Sheriff Jeff Wiley says they believe the incident could be a hit and run and they are asking to public to come forward with any information. He says Tumas lived with his parents in the senior citizen area of Pelican Point in Gonzales.
Cut 5 (09) “about it.”
Wiley does say they are not ruling out any scenario.

The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office says a 24-year-old woman and her ex-boyfriend were found dead in Central this morning. EBRSO Spokesperson Casey Hicks says Alyssa Kanouse was found dead inside a silver sedan, and 31-year-old Larry Warino Jr. was found dead in a white one.
Cut 13 (05) “suicide”
Hicks says it’s believed Warino shot Kanouse before turning the gun on himself.