Baton Rouge Representative Steve Carter has filed a bill to increase the state’s gasoline tax by 17-cents a gallon. Many are opposed to higher taxes at the capitol. Carter says when his bill comes up for debate, he’ll provide detailed information on how a higher gasoline tax will benefit the state…
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The state currently has a 20-cent tax in place on a gallon of gasoline.

Shreveport Representative Cedric Glover has a bill that would end the partnerships that LSU and UL Lafayette have with local breweries. Those two schools have been able to trademark their own beers and receive a cut of the sales. Glover says these beer partnerships encourage drinking by the schools and it’s a bad look even though it means money…
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Debate on this bill will begin in House Education.

Louisiana would allow public school students to bring sunscreen to school without parental consent or a doctor’s note. The bill passed out of a House committee on a 12-1 vote. The lone dissenting vote was from Baton Rouge Representative Patricia Smith…
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The measure that’s now heading to the House floor also allows for school employees to apply, if there’s parental consent.

Six people have been arrested in Bossier City for human trafficking as a result of an undercover prostitution operation. Bossier Sheriff’s spokesperson Lt. Bill Davis nine people, including four females, traveled in from Little Rock in the back of a U-Haul. Davis says a local man allowed his apartment to be rented out for prostitution.
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Davis says two teenage girls asked to be rescued from the situation.