A suspected serial killer has confessed to the murder of two Terrebonne Parish women. The murders happened in 1982 and 1996. Houma Police Sgt. Travis Theriot says detectives believe the suspect, 78 year-old Samuel Little, killed dozens of women in several states
Cut 3 (10) “…range of 50.”
Little is currently serving multiple life sentences in a a Texas jail. He also confessed to killing 29-year-old Melissa Thomas of Opelousas in 1996.

Republican Congressman Ralph Abraham from Richland Parish says he supports a work or educational requirement for an able-bodied adult to be eligible for SNAP written into the Farm Bill. Abraham says the current version of the Senate Farm Bill is seeing hurdles in the lame duck session, as he says Dems want to completely rewrite the bill.
Cut 10 (08) “…the next congress.”
Abraham says there is a chance that there may be an agreement reached with the Farm Bill before the lame duck sessions ends.

19-year-old Stanley Celestine Junior will be one of the youngest school board members in the country when he begins his term in January. Celestine says he’s a civically engaged teenager who does a lot of work with non-profits and through that work he saw the Avoyelles Parish school system has significant issues that need to be adressed…
cut 13 (05) “…policy problems”
The district just received a “C” grade from the state department of education.