For a third consecutive year, LSU’s Louisiana survey finds a majority of residents believe the state is heading in the wrong direction. Sean Richardson has the story.
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Funeral services have been set for one of Louisiana’s top businessman. Visitation will begin Tuesday for Acadian Companies Chairman and CEO Richard Zuschlag, who died on Tuesday from cancer. Visitation will be at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Lafayette and the funeral will be Wednesday.

The Louisiana Department of Health announces Feeding Louisiana will take over as the provider for the Louisiana Commodity Supplemental Food Program, which provides food to eligible residents who are 60-years and older. LDH’s Director of Nutrition Services, Jennifer Nicklas says recipients should continue to receive their Senior Boxes without interruption…
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Feeding Louisiana will take over for Catholic Charities starting July 1st.

The M-J Foster Promise Program is taking applications. It provides grant dollars to adults who want to go to a two-year school and earn the necessary crendtials to get a job in a high demand field. Brittany Theriot with the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance says last year they had more than ten-thousand applicants…
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LSU’s Louisiana Survey finds 61-percent of Louisiana residents believe the state is heading in the wrong direction, but there’s an eight-percent increase to 36-percent of the respondents believe state government can address Louisiana’s challenges. Director of the Louisiana Survey, Doctor Michael Henderson…
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Twenty-eight-percent of the respondents listed crime as the state’s biggest problem, up from 19-percent last year.

After almost forty years with Catholic Charities, The Louisiana Commodity Supplemental Food Program is transitioning to a new partnership after the USDA encouraged them to seek bids for providers. Feeding Louisiana with its statewide network of foodbanks will begin distributing “Senior Boxes” to eligible Louisianans 60 and over. LDH’s Director of Nutrition Services, Jennifer Nicklas…
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Rain chances are low this weekend so it’s the perfect weekend to cast a line and you don’t need a fishing license. Brooke Thorington has more on Louisiana’s Free Fishing Weekend.
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A drawbridge in south Louisiana will be closed for the next three months after it was hit by a barge early Thursday morning. Iberville Sheriff Brett Stassi says there’s significant damage to the concrete and some of the metal structure on the drawbridge on LA 77 west of Plaquemine. Residents in the area are now facing much longer commute times.

A survey out of LSU finds 61 percent of Louisiana residents believe the state is heading in the wrong direction. The Louisiana Survey polled more than one thousand adults in March and April and only 30 percent said the state is heading in the right direction. Director of the Louisiana Survey Professor Michael Henderson says these numbers are similar to the last couple of years.
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Henderson says this is the second consecutive year that 61 percent of the respondents said the state is heading in the wrong direction.

It’s time to grab those fishing poles and cast a line. This Saturday and Sunday it’s a Free Fishing Weekend in Louisiana. State Wildlife Fisheries Outreach Biologist Josh Porter says you don’t need a fishing license to drop a line in the water
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Visit LWDF’s “Get out and Fish” Facebook page for more information.

After almost forty years with Catholic Charities, The Louisiana Commodity Supplemental Food Program has a new partner. Colleen Crain has the story…
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Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day when more than 156-thousand Allied ground troops stormed the beaches of Normandy….
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That’s Colonel Jerome Buller with the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs.

Awaiting the governor’s signature is a bill that would allow some high school students to opt out of taking the ACT test. Bossier City Representative Dennis Bamburg’s bill would give career-path diploma students the option to take a job skills test or a military readiness test instead. Bamburg says requiring a student who does not plan on attending college to take the ACT is lowering the state’s overall ACT score…
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BESE President Ronnie Morris is urging the governor to veto this bill, because he says the proposed law would weaken school accountability.

Governor Landry has signed a bill to repeal a law that would have put speed cameras on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge. It is welcome news to St. Martin Parish Sheriff Becket Breaux, who has increased patrols on the bridge in 2022 and he says it’s helped reduce speeding and prevented crashes…
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He says it is better to have a law enforcement presence versus cameras.

The Kenny Wayne Shepard band is performing at the Raising Canes River Center on July 13th in Baton Rouge, and they want a band from Louisiana to open up for them. They plan to hold a Battle of the Bands competition at the Texas Club in Baton Rouge on June 21 and they are taking submissions now. Kenny Wayne Shepard says this is a great opportunity for an aspiring Louisiana band.

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Go to Eagle981.com for info.

It was 80 years ago today when more than 156,000 Allied ground troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, a turning point in WWII, what’s referred to as D-Day. Of the 2,500 Americans who were killed, 33 were from Louisiana. Colonel Jerome Buller with the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs says this anniversary is notable because…

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Legislation awaiting the governor’s signature would lift the requirement that every high school student has to take the A-C-T test. Jeff Palermo has the story…

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The founder and President of Acadian Ambulance Richard Zuschlag has passed away at 76 after a battle with cancer. The Pennsylvania native moved to Lafaye5ter in 1976 and a year later started Acadian Ambulance with two ambulances. Zuschlag appeared on WRKF’s Talk Louisiana in 2022 and talked about growing Acadian Ambulance into one of the country’s largest privately held medical transportation companies.

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Governor Jeff Landry signed into law a bill that gives himself authority to appoint the chairs of the board that he already appoints most of the membership. Landry appointed Stephen Dwyer as the chairman of the Housing Corporation and replaces Jimmy Clarke with New Iberia native Mark Romero as chairman of the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System.