It started out as a bill to ban radar detectors, but was amended to just ban radar jammers, instead. State senator Don Cravins of Lafayette says these electronic devices help drivers break the law and should be banned in Louisiana. The Senate Transportation Committee agreed sending it to full Senate next. To add insult to injury, former state Highway Safety Commissioner Colonel Jim Champagne says some radar jammers don't just block the signal from police radar guns, the jammers disable cops' equipment. Cravins says people stopped for speeding, or when a radar gun signal is disrupted, won't be presumed guilty if they've got a jammer in the car. They won't get a ticket if the jammer isn't plugged in.

 A state appeals court has ordered the Lafayette Police Department to rehire an officer who was fired after testing positive for steroids.  The court ruled that supervisors had no valid reason to test John Keith Richard, who says the positive test was a result of a tainted dietary supplement.  Richard was one of two officers fired for testing positive for steroids in 2005 during an investigation into connections a drug suspect had with the police department.  Richard argued the department did not have "reasonable suspicion" to test him.  He lost one appeal before the Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service Board and another to state District Judge John Trahan.  Richard's attorney, WIlliam Goode, says his client is currently working in New Orleans, where he owns a security business.  Goode says it's uncertain whether Richard will rejoin the Lafayette Police Department.  

 The Lafayette Parish School Board has approved a plan that revises how excess revenue from a 2002 half-cent tax fund is passed out among eligible teachers.  The plan calls for a one-thousand-dollar increase to be applied the the school district's teacher salary schedule starting with the next school year.  The remainder will be distributed in a lump sum, which means eligible teachers will receive an extra 822 dollars in their paychecks in May.  

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.