More woman and minorities are receiving concealed handgun permits than men, according to a national report from the Crime Prevention Research Center…:
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Red snapper anglers get another weekend of fishing. The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries say, so far, fishermen have not threatened the harvest limit that would trigger the closure of the red snapper season. They say the state’s self-imposed cutoff is 1.04 million pounds for 2017, and the latest catch numbers are just over 655,600 pounds.

Governor John Bel Edwards would like lawmakers to start working on a solution to the looming budget deficit as over a billion dollars in temporary taxes are set to expire in July of next year…:
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He says they simply cannot wait until next year to start working, and that’s what he said in a letter to House Speaker Taylor Barras.

Lt. Bruce Simmons is back to work at the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, just over a year after being shot in the police ambush. Casey Rayborn Hicks with the sheriff’s office says even though doctors had to put a titanium bar in Simmons’ arm because the bone was shattered where he was shot, he cleared his qualifying tests with flying colors…:
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Sheriff Sid Gautreaux welcomed Simmons back by promoting him from sergeant to lieutenant.