Both Louisiana US Senate candidates are trying to show voters they can get things done in Washington D.C. Republican Bill Cassidy has been promised a seat on the Senate Energy Committee if elected and Senator Mary Landrieu has convinced her colleagues to vote on requiring White House approval of the controversial Keystone Pipeline. ULM Political Science Professor Joshua Stockley says a vote for the Keystone Pipeline and passage of any such legislation would allow Landrieu to argue she still has power in Congress…

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Stockley says while these moves probably don’t mean much to voters, they certainly don’t hurt.

A large portion of Louisiana is under a freeze warning tonight. Mike Efferson, with the National Weather Service in Slidell, says lows tonight could dip down as low as 25 degrees…

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Efferson says temperatures will be 20 to 25 degrees below normal heading into the weekend.

It’s suspected that more Louisiana teens are being hospitalized as a result of a now-banned new component in synthetic marijuana known as Mojo and Spice. Louisiana Poison Control Executive Director Mark Ryan says the dose is what makes the poison…

cut 11 (11) “really bad substance”

First a problem in Baton Rouge, narcotics officials now say this compound “MAB-CHMINACA” is sending teens to Lafayette hospitals.

Higher education is more vulnerable to budget cuts after three constitutional amendments approved by voters last week. The passage of Amendment eight, which protects funding for artificial reef development, has the potential of keeping state dollars away from higher education. Jan Moller, head of the Louisiana Budget Project, says less state funding for higher ed, means higher tuition costs…

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Moller says we could see the impact of these new constitutional amendments on higher education very soon.