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• Why so many freshmen lawmakers on key Louisiana money committees?

  16-02-2016 22:45
  
  Many of the people who will have most say about how to fix the state budget are brand new to the legislative process.
  
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• LSU says ticket limits to be enforced for Wisconsin game

  16-02-2016 22:19
  
  LSU gets 20,000 ticket allotment.
  
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• Freshman legislators will have a big role in fixing state budget

  16-02-2016 21:45
  
  Many of the people who will have most say about how to fix the state budget are brand new to the legislative process.
  
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• LSU WR Trey Quinn tweets he's leaving Tigers

  16-02-2016 20:15
  
  Caught five passes for 83 yards last season.
  
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• Police identify pedestrian killed trying to cross Airline Hwy Tuesday night

  16-02-2016 19:47
  
  BATON ROUGE - Baton Rouge Police have identified a pedestrian who was killed Tuesday night as she attempted to cross Airline Highway north of Florida Boulevard.43-year-old Melissa Arlt, of Angie, Louisiana, was pronounced dead at the scene by the EBR coroner at around 7 p.m. in the 8300 block Airline Highway near Cortana Mall.Police said Arlt was apparently trying to cross the road when she was hit by a 2003 Honda Accord that was traveling southbound in the outside lane.The southbound lanes of t
  
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• Louisiana's budget crisis presents opportunity to get priorities in order: JR Ball

  16-02-2016 19:32
  
  Let's acknowledge the following: 1) Louisiana's state budget is a disaster, short nearly $1 billion for remaining five months of this fiscal year and a projected $2 billion next year; 2) Former Gov. Bobby Jindal and lapdog legislators are largely responsible...
  
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• LSU spring practice less than 3 weeks away, let's chat Tuesday, noon

  16-02-2016 18:40
  
  Tigers return 18 starters and a motivated head coach.
  
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• House GOP subpoenas 3 groups in Planned Parenthood probe

  16-02-2016 17:13
  
  WASHINGTON - The Republican chairman of a special House panel investigating Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers has issued the first three subpoenas to groups she says are withholding information.Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn said Tuesday she'd subpoenaed documents from StemExpress, a company that supplies fetal tissue from abortion clinics to researchers. She said subpoenas also went to the University of New Mexico and Southwestern Women's Options, which provides abortions in New
  
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• New concussion protocol for West Baton Rouge athletes being discussed

  16-02-2016 17:02
  
  BATON ROUGE - Questions about playing the rest of the game after a concussion could be a thing of the past for West Baton Rouge student-athletes.The school board and administrators from Port Allen and Brusly High have been discussing a new, baseline testing system for the students.Much like what is used at St. Amant High, the students will be tested once the system is adopted, and again after major hits to test for concussions."We want to be on the cutting edge with safety for our students," Por
  
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• Schedule for second round of of I-10 Corridor improvements public meetings

  16-02-2016 16:50
  
  BATON ROUGE - Traffic officials are reminding the public about next week’s open-to-the-public meetings to discuss proposed improvements to the I-10 Corridor through the Capital City.The project is currently in the planning phase with a feasibility study being prepared. All interested parties are encouraged to attend the meetings. The time and locations are as follows:Monday, February 22, 2016
  6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
  McKinley Middle Magnet School
  1550 Eddie Robinson Sr. Drive
  Baton Rouge,
  
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• NAACP warns BREC about fight over any plans to move zoo

  16-02-2016 16:50
  
  BATON ROUGE - The city's NAACP is gearing up to fight any plans to move the zoo from its current location in North Baton Rouge.BREC has not officially said it wants to move the Baton Rouge Zoo from Thomas Road, but some have suggested a new location as the city's parks department looks at ways to improve the experience of the public attraction. In 2015, Friends of the Baton Rouge Zoo hired a consulting firm to examine ways the facility could be improved. The consultants made several recommendati
  
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• Pointe Coupee shooting began as kidnapping in Avoyelles Parish

  16-02-2016 16:35
  
  INNIS - A "vigilante" shooting in Pointe Coupee Parish Monday afternoon happened after a kidnapping in Avoyelles Parish, according to Louisiana State Police.Investigators say 40-year-old Mario Celestino kidnapped his ex-girlfriend's mother and demanded the location of her daughter. While traveling through Pointe Coupee Parish, a sheriff's deputy pulled Celestino over.State Police Maj. Doug Cain says Celestino got out the car holding a gun. The deputy demanded that the man give up the gun. After
  
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• LSU spring football practice schedule set

  16-02-2016 16:04
  
  Tigers open with four practices first week.
  
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• Plaquemines Parish Public Defenders Office to close after state cuts

  16-02-2016 15:27
  
  Plaquemines Parish Chief Public Defender Michael Robnett has publicly said people charged with crimes may end up being released.
  
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• Disabled children could lose state funded day care

  16-02-2016 12:55
  
  BATON ROUGE- Hundreds of disabled children in Louisiana could lose state funded daycare March 1st. The bad news came Tuesday during testimony by state health care officials. The Department of Health and Hospitals is short millions of dollars forcing it to cut the program. 612 children will be affected. Shannon Woodside's five year old daughter Tela is among those in danger of being cut. Tela is adopted and functions on the level of an infant because she was the victim of shaken
  
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• EBRSO: Crash reveals school bus driver didn't have valid license

  16-02-2016 12:29
  
  BATON ROUGE - An East Baton Rouge Parish school bus driver has been fired after rear-ending a parked car Monday afternoon. She was issued two tickets by EBRSO deputies. One suggests she shouldn't have been driving at all.The accident happened Monday around 4 p.m. on North Flannery, near Delores, off Greenwell Springs. The Investigative Unit uncovered Latrice Winley was behind the wheel without a valid driver's license.Winley was on the way home from the work when the accident happened; no kids w
  
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• Documents: Ex-NFL star Sharper has new plea hearing Thursday

  16-02-2016 08:18
  
  NEW ORLEANS- Federal court documents show that former NFL star Darren Sharper has a new plea hearing set for Thursday, further indication that his plea agreement in a drug and sexual assault case is off.
      
  Earlier this month, court records showed that Sharper had renewed plea negotiations with federal prosecutors and was preparing a trial defense. Sharper had pleaded guilty as part of a deal involving charges in four states, but a federal judge deferred acceptance o
  
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• February 16, 2016 Morning News Pop

  16-02-2016 07:03
  
  Here are today's top stories:LSP: 1 dead, 1 in custody after shooting in InnisStrong storms blow roof off Alexandria car wash and onto nearby Pizza Hut Income tax overhaul proposed Sun to return, sun to stayUpdates all day, every day:FACEBOOK | TWITTERPermalink| Comments
  
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• Police: Another arrest after Mississippi parade shooting

  16-02-2016 06:01
  
  PASS CHRISTIAN, MS.- Authorities say they've arrested a Gulfport woman in connection with a shooting after a Mardi Gras parade in Mississippi that left two people dead and four others wounded.
      
  Officials have arrested Sharon Johnson on a charge of hindering prosecution.
      
  Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson said in a release that Johnson removed and disposed of evidence at a Gulfport hospital on Feb. 7 while victims of the shooting i
  
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• Paris attack survivors open up ahead of tribute concert

  16-02-2016 05:01
  
  PARIS- Survivors of November's deadly Paris attacks have opened up to a French terrorism commission ahead of a highly charged concert in the French capital by Eagles of Death Metal - the U.S. rock band whose show in the Bataclan concert hall was among the attack targets.
      
  Speaking to the parliamentary commission Monday, Bataclan survivor Alexis Lebrun questioned why there was scant security around one of Paris' biggest music venues, despite a high alert following a
  
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• USDA rules would increase food stamp access to healthy foods

  16-02-2016 04:23
  
  WASHINGTON- Retailers that accept food stamps would have to start stocking a wider variety of healthy foods or face the loss of consumers under proposed rules expected to be announced by the Agriculture Department on Tuesday.
      
  The rules are designed to ensure people who use food stamps have better access to healthy foods. But they don't dictate what people buy or eat. A person using food stamp dollars could still purchase as much junk food as they wanted, but they
  
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• LSU allotted 20,000 tickets for Wisconsin game

  16-02-2016 04:13
  
  Wisconsin will get 40,000 in the 80,735-seat stadium.
  
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• Clean Water Act trial beginning for ex-BP rig supervisor

  16-02-2016 03:41
  
  NEW ORLEANS- A former BP rig supervisor goes on trial Tuesday on a misdemeanor charge connected to pollution from the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
      
  Robert Kaluza once faced much more serious charges - manslaughter counts connected to the deaths of 11 workers who died when the offshore rig exploded.
      
  But federal prosecutors backed off those charges in December.
      
  Tuesday's t
  
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