Governor John Bel Edwards held his last press conference of the year, where he addressed concerns about the looming fiscal cliff. Matt Doyle has more…
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The state attorney general’s office announced today the Academy of the Sacred Heart athletic director and basketball coach has been arrested on various sex crimes, including indecent behavior with a juvenile. 51-year-old Mark Aune of Opelousas was booked into the St. Landry Parish jail with the help of Texas authorities.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act approved by Congress has far reaching effects for Louisiana. U-S Senator Bill Cassidy says not only will it cut taxes, but it also creates nearly 100-million dollars in additional funding for coastal restoration projects…
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Cassidy says the bill also doubles the Child Tax Credit to two-thousand dollars.

LSU AgCenter sugarcane specialist Kenneth Gravois believes this will be a record breaking year for sugarcane production in this state. Gravois says the freak snow storm that hit south Louisiana two weeks ago did very little damage to the crop….
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2012 is the record for production, 84-hundred pounds per acre harvested and Gravois believes they’ll beat that this year.