Changes have been made already to Governor Jindal's budget plan. A
House committee has voted to stop a planned pay raise for thousands
of state employees and instead restore money cut from arts programs,
parks and health care services.

(Undated)  --  An anti-cancer compound already under study for the treatment of blood cancers may also be used to treat cancers in the head and neck.  Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York are reporting the discovery today.  Mouth, throat and voice box cancers are the sixth-most common form of cancer in the U.S., affecting about 40-thousand people each year.  Typical treatments range from surgery to chemotherapy and radiation.  Einstein researchers say the new class of agents they're looking at affect the availability of genes that become either too active or not active enough at producing proteins so become cancerous.  Researchers say they've made a serendipitous discovery.  One particular agent, or inhibitor, that's proven successful at treating cancers of the blood also kills tumor cells removed from the head and neck of cancer patients.  The discovery is a first step toward a possible treatment for head and neck cancer that involves fewer side effects than current therapies.  Research details are in todays online edition of "The Journal of Pathology."
 

(Church Point, LA) -- A Church Point man has been arrested after a man was shot and killed and two others were wounded during a birthday party at a local residence Saturday. Police Chief Albert Venable says 29-year-old Jonathan Citizen is accused of killing 43-year-old Paul Reginald Landry during an apparent argument over a set of tires. Authorities say Citizen showed up at the party and hit one of the guests before leaving. Police say Citizen returned several hours later and began firing a rifle in the direction of a crowd standing in a yard. One man was shot in the leg and above the right eye. Officials say Citizen left the scene and returned for a third time, this time approaching the home from a wooded area, and fired his rifle again. Another man was wounded in the leg and shoulder. Police say, as Landry approached Citizen to get him to stop, Landry was shot in the chest, back and head. Citizen was later arrested in Opelousas. He faces charges of second-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and second-degree battery.

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.