12:30 Newscast, May 14th, 2015

The New Orleans Police Department report the bodies of a missing mother and her two children were found in a car in New Orleans East. Eric Gill reports…:
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State Police say a 15-year-old unrestrained driver from Leesville died in a Vernon Parish crash last night. They say Acadia Sanders lost control of the truck she was driving and slammed into a large tree. Investigators determined Sanders was not wearing a seat belt and was pronounced dead at the scene. An 18-year-old passenger was restrained and received moderate injuries.

The Louisiana House approves legislation that would prohibit gender based abortions. The bill’s author, Houma Representative Lenar Whitney, says there have been no documented cases in Louisiana. But she cited an article from Forbes Magazine about pregnancies ending early in US Asian communities because the sex of the unborn child was a girl…:
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Whitney’s legislation passed on an 84-2 vote.

If you haven’t gotten your state taxes done yet tomorrow is the deadline for filing 2014 Louisiana individual income tax returns. The state department of revenue recommends electronic filing.