A State Senate committee will soon take up a measure to move Louisiana to a flat income tax after getting the okay from the house.
Cut 3 (35) “…I’m Jeff Palermo.”
Governor Landry is defending his push to bring a live tiger into Death Valley prior to LSU’s blowout loss to Alabama. During an event in Metairie, Landry said Omar, which was brought in from Florida, was the only tiger to show up that night.
Both sides are reacting after a federal court judge in Baton Rouge put a halt to the state’s Ten Commandments law. Jabarie Walker, the political director at the ACLU of Louisiana, hailed Judge John deGravelles’ (de-GRAVEL) ruling, saying separation of church and state means keeping religion out of public schools.
And that’s exactl\y what the state will do. In a statement, Attorney General Liz Murrill said she strongly disagrees with the decision and will immediately appeal.
A woman is behind bars for allegedly endangering her young son. Investigators in St. Landry Parish say Artasia Viges (VEE-zhees) told them that people in an older model truck kidnapped her son, who’s less than five years old, as she was tending to a flat tire. Major Mark LeBlanc said investigators determined it to be something else entirely..
Cut 10 (09) “…the child’s knees.”
Viges is behind bars on 200-thousand dollars bond.