Many around the Bayou State woke up to damage from severe weather overnight. Meteorologist Brandi Richardson says the National Weather Service Shreveport office has deployed tornado survey teams to Nachitoches, Caddo and northern DeSoto Parishes.
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There are reports of extensive tornado damage in Jackson Parish.

New Orleans Police say a teenager fatally shot a woman and injured her husband in an attempted car robbery in New Orleans last night. Police Chief Shaun Ferguson says the couple went outside of their home when their car alarm went off and another suspect in a nearby getaway car shouted to the teen to start shooting…
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The woman was shot in the head, the man in the arm and the teen also suffered a gunshot wound. The suspect faces murder charges.

A constitutional amendment to exempt diapers and tampons from the state sales tax fails in the Senate, but the measure got a second chance at life before discussion wrapped for the day. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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The full House has approved a 30-billion dollar budget for next fiscal year. It contains a 12-hundred dollar teacher pay raise, but it does not have the additional 39-million dollars that the governor is seeking for public schools.