Federal income tax day is Monday and experts are urging citizens to remain vigilant in these final days and not rush to get your documents in order as you may miss an important detail. Letti Lowe-Ardoin, with the Louisiana CPA society, says itemized deductions are the most commonly overlooked…:
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Two whooping crane chicks have hatched in Louisiana for the first time since 1939…:
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Family and friends will be saying their final goodbyes to Hokie Gajan today. The beloved Saints color analyst and prominent football player died from cancer this week at the age of 56. John Ed Bradley, sportswriter and former teammate of Gajan’s at LSU, says the running back was an amazing player and great person…:
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Services will be held in Madisonville.

Also today Saints fans are invited to the visitation of former Black and Gold player Will Smith who was shot and killed last Saturday. It will be held at the team’s practice facility in Metairie.

A second man has been arrested in connection with a 4 vehicle crash in Livingston Parish that claimed the lives of a 4-year-old and 6-year-old. Authorities say two vehicles had stopped to remove a trash compactor out of the road, when 26-year-old Jerry Ervin III crashed through orange triangles into all of the occupants of the pulled over cars. The two children died on the scene. Ervin’s charges include two counts of vehicular homicide. The owner of the trash compactor, also suspected of being impaired, was arrested first on the same charges.