The third special session of 2018 begins at 4 PM today as Governor John Bel Edwards is bringing legislators back to Baton Rouge in the hopes they can pass a sales tax bill that would replace some of the revenue lost when a one-cent sales tax expires on June 30th.

They are often used to treat pain, but now, Dr. Bob Zura from LSU Health New Orleans says it looks like opioids may increase the risk of broken bones. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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A Denham Springs couple in their 30s face up to 35 years in prison after they were caught allegedly transporting 25 undocumented immigrants in S-U-Vs. State Police Sergeant James Anderson says Stephanie and Nicholas Harris were pulled over on I-10 between Sulphur and Westlake for a traffic stop and the responding troopers found a much a bigger problem, human trafficking…
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US Border patrol took custody of the illegal ailens and the juveniles were placed into protective custody.

State Treasurer John Schroder says there’s been a huge increase in interest in the Unclaimed Property program after they publicized the return of two-point-three million dollars from the fund to a resident in north Louisiana…
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Schroder says they still have another 858-million dollars in unclaimed money, so every resident should visit L-A-treasury-dot-com.