6:30 am Newscast

The Louisiana House has approved two significant pieces of Governor Jeff Landry’s tax plan. The first bill to head to the Senate for its approval is a measure reduce individual income taxes to a flat three-percent rate. Carencro Representative Julie Emerson is the sponsor of the bill…

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Plenty of reaction after a federal court judge in Baton Rouge put the state’s Ten Commandments law on hold. Jabarie Walker, the political director at the ACLU of Louisiana, hailed Judge John deGravelles’ (de-GRAVEL) ruling, saying it ensures the separation of church and state.

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Today Alexandria is having a Regional Litter Conference hosted by Keep Louisiana Beautiful to address the states litter problem.  Sean Richardson has more.

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A woman who claimed her 4 year old son had been kidnapped is now facing charges.  St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Officials say Artasia Vigees told authorities that someone in an older model truck took the boy while she was attending to a flat tire.  But Major Mark LeBlanc says investigators determined that’s not what happened.

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