The House Appropriations Committee has sent several budget bills to the House floor for consideration. House Bill 1 would fund TOPS at 80 percent, and cut higher education by 26 million dollars. Baton Rouge Representative Patricia Smith says funding TOPS at such a high level while slashing higher ed doesn’t make sense.
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Legislators are trying to pass a budget before the special session ends June 4th.

The search is on for a gunman who fatally a shot a four-year-old girl and her father in LaPlace. St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff Mike Tregre says deputies are canvassing the neighborhood as they search for more leads…
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The victims were walking up the stairs to their home, when Tregre says a gunman came out of the darkness and started firing his weapon.

New Orleans is hosting over 7,000 teachers this week for a yearly development conference. Becca Dill has the story.
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And St. Tammany Parish President Pat Brister has written a letter urging Governor John Bel Edwards to move up the time line for a proposed I-12 expansion in the Covington area. The letter comes days after a fiery 18-wheeler crash that killed four people. Brister says that stretch of interstate has become dangerous…
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