Governor Jeff Landry is making the rounds on local talk shows touting his support for Constitutional Amendment 3 on the May 16th ballot. Amendment 3 eliminates three education trust funds and use the money contained in those funds to pay down retirement debt, which will give public school teachers and support workers a...

TOPS Opportunity and Performance award recipients would pay back their state-funded scholarship if they lost their scholarship under a bill that barely got out of the House Education Committee. Bossier City Representative Dennis Bamburg is the author of the bill. "If a student accepts TOPS funds, there is a respon...

Tax Day is here and hopefully you are ready. It can be a daunting task to gather documents and work through returns or get all the required information to a tax preparer on time. If you find yourself unprepared, CPA John Theriot with Malcolm Dienes in Metairie says you can file form 4868 for an extension. "That gi...

The father of a student was shot by his 13-year-old son in front of the Tangipahoa Alternative School in Hammond this morning. Hammond Police Chief Edwin Bergeron says the father was dropping his son off at school, when his son refused to leave the vehicle. Bergeron says the father decided to take his son back home and...

The House Governmental Affairs Committee has approved legislation that would prohibit the public from seeing how much student-athletes receive from a public university as part of a revenue sharing deal. New Orleans Representative Candace Newell, who has a nephew on the LSU football team, supports the legislation. "...