After less than six months on the job as Governor Bobby Jindal's legislative director, 65-year-old Tommy Williams has resigned. Williams says he left on good terms, but would not say what prompted his decision to leave. In two special sessions and the just ended regular legislative session, Jindal was highly successful in winning the approval of state lawmakers on ethics and budgetary reform initiatives, but has come under sharp criticism, and is now the target of a recall effort, after the legislature voted to double its base-pay and Jindal vowed he would not veto it. Recall efforts are also underway against House Speaker Jim Tucker and three other legislators.

The public furor over the legislative payraise continues unabated, but a West Monroe lawmaker is trying to undo some of the damage. First-term Republican Frank Hoffman says he's asked Governor Bobby Jindal to please veto the pay raise bill. The governor hasn't reversed his vow NOT to veto the bill. Other lawmakers are now also calling for a veto.

The chairman of the state Ethics Board, and three other members, say they're resigning due to changes made to the Board earlier this year in a special legislative session. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says reforms were passed in that session that stripped "judge & jury" powers from the Ethics Board. Board Chairman Hank Perret and members John Greene & Gwen Hamilton say they're dropping from the panel, along with Ethics Board administrator Richard Sherburne. During the 1st special session, lawmakers took the Board's powers to judge and punish alleged ethics violators away, and gave it to a panel of administrative law judges. Pinsonat says he feels the exodus from the Ethics Board will fail to resonate with the people of the state.

The wife of a  Keithville man found murdered in his home Sunday has been arrested for hiring someone to kill her husband.

State Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham reopens part of the Mississippi River delta in Plaquemines Parish to recreational fishing.

First Lady Supriya Jindal was in Shreveport and Alexandria today to rally support for an effort to assist those affected by the Gulf oil spill crisis.

Here's a look at stories making national news.

A new national poll finds former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is currently the Republican with the chance of defeating President Obama in 2012. 

Arizona has filed an appeal in the federal lawsuit which resulted in an injunction against portions of the state's new immigration law.