The Senate Finance Committee is set to meet at this hour and they’ll discuss legislation that would provide 250-thousand dollars to the families of any teacher or school employee that’s killed while performing their job. The bill was prompted by the tragic south Florida school shooting. Columbia Senator Neil Riser is the author of the bill….
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Currently fire and police officers are covered under a similar law.

The LSU Board of Supervisors has approved three scholarships to help attract students to the Baton Rouge campus. One of them is called the Transformation Merit Scholarship. Chief enrollment officer, Jose Aviles, says that’s for students who have a 26 or 27 ACT and those are students most univerisites are trying to attract…
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There’s also the Innovation Awards, which is for strictly for in-state residents and it pays up to three-thousand dollars.

400,000 state returns have been sent out to Louisiana taxpayers, but if you haven’t seen your money yet, it doesn’t mean something went wrong. Matt Doyle has more.
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Farmerville police say 28-year-old Charlecia Shyne of Homer entered a residence armed with a knife and stabbed a female victim in the face several times. An adult male and a juvenile also suffered from injuries. Shyne was found in Caddo Parish and was transported back to Union Parish. Her bond is set at 240-thousand-dollars.