US Senator John Kennedy is recommending a financing plan using Unclaimed Property dollars as a way to help pay for major infrastructure projects. Kennedy says the current upswing of the stock market makes it a ripe time to convert the noncash securities into cash…
Cut 7 (11) “substantially finish it”
The Comite River Diversion Canal is a flood control project for Baton Rouge. Governor Edwards says a better funding solution is for Congress to pass a bill to fund it.

CNN anchor Don Lemon’s sister has been identified as the woman who died in an accidental drowning in Denham Springs. Livingston Sheriff Jason Ard says 58-year-old L’tanya Grimes drowned in a neighborhood pond…
cut 13 (10) “…the body”
A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court’s ruling that said the heat index can not exceed 88-degrees at Angola’s death row. Lawyers for three convicted killers filed a civil rights lawsuit in an effort to get the state department of corrections to install air conditioning. State Attorney General Jeff Landry applauds the Fifth Circuit’s decision and says that these are death row prisoners that shouldn’t be afforded pleasant conditions…:
Cut 11 (09) “if need be”
The attorney for the death row inmates is reviewing the ruling.

Alabama tourism claims the city of Mobile is “America’s original Mardi Gras.” That’s at least what they are saying in billboards that can be seen in New Orleans and southern Mississippi. Mardi Gras expert Arthur Hardy disagrees.
cut 4 (11) “….in Alabama”