State Treasurer John Kennedy says Louisiana could see a drop in its credit score. Kennedy says Moody’s Investors Service have said that if we don’t get our financial house in order, they will downgrade us from stable to negative. He says they point out that for 7 years we’ve spent more money than we took in…

cut 8 (10) “never materialized”

Kennedy says it’s not inevitable that we’ll be downgraded, but it’ll be up to the legislature to make some changes next session.

Retired Lieutenant General Russel Honore wants private companies to pay for an air monitoring system in Louisiana. Honore now leads a coalition called the Green Army that proposes a series of sensors to be installed outside of chemical plants, monitoring air quality. Honore says if something goes wrong, the sensors can notify nearby residents. He says the current method is not trust worthy…

cut 11 (09) “checking it out”

Honore says he’ll seek to have the state legislature pass what he calls a 21st Century Clean Air Bill.

The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s office says a teacher is behind bars for allegedly having inappropriate sexual relations with a juvenile student. Lt Tommy Carnline says the complaint came from the Glenmora Police Department who asked their deputies to investigate 28-year-old Donald Gene Parker III…

cut 13 (08) “juvenile student”

Carnline says Parker faces many charges including 1 count of pornography involving juveniles, 1 count of indecent behavior with juveniles.

A new poll show that Governor Bobby Jindal’s numbers have slipped among Iowa Republican voters. In the poll, Jindal got just two-percent of respondents when asked for their first choice in a presidential candidate. Pollster Ann Selzer says it’s important for Jindal to speak in a distinctive voice…

cut 5 (10) “a different thing”

The poll, conducted by the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics, also showed the governor’s unfavorable numbers rose to 20-percent.