House Ways and Means will hear a bill Monday that would repeal the .45 percent state sales tax levied in the last legislative session to plug a budget deficit. But Haughton Rep. Dodie Horton says the nearly half-a-cent sales tax is producing a surplus
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The Edwards administration is expected to oppose the measure.

Congressman Steve Scalise says he’s still struggling to forgive the man who shot him and four others as Republicans practiced for a charity baseball game in June 2017. A week ago today, Scalise traveled with the Vice President to Opelousas and said it was good to talk with one of the pastors who said he’s already forgiven the man charged with burning his church down. Scalise says his Catholic faith teaches forgiveness and he’s trying to get there.

LSU hands out over four-thousand degrees today and tomorrow, so will these new grads find employment within state borders? Matt Doyle has more…
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At this hour much of the state is getting a break from the stormy weather, but more heavy rainfall is on the way. Mike Steele, with the governor’s office of homeland security and emergency preparedness, says when there is a downpour, stay off the roads…
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Much of the state is under a flash flood watch until Saturday night.