State government is looking at its first budget deficit in several years. The deficit for the next fiscal year is the result of a temporary state sales tax of .45 percent expiring as well as a two-percent tax on business utilities.  House Appropriations Chairman Jack McFarland says much needed reforms are needed to address this upcoming shortfall

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Currently, Louisiana is facing a projected revenue shortfall of 340-million dollars for next fiscal year. McFarland says that does not include the 248-million dollars in education initiatives that pays for teacher stipends and student tutoring, approved by the legislature in the spring.

Earlier this summer Republican Donald Trump had the lead in most national polling before President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, but now JMC Analytics Pollster John Couvillon says the former president is trying to catch up….

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A Webster Parish man and his daughter are shot to death, and the suspect is only ten years old. We get the story from Andrew Greenstein.

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Brusly Police in West Baton Rouge Parish say a four-year-old child found a gun in the console of his father’s pickup truck and fatally shot himself. Hudson Tassin died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Sunday morning. His father is Blake Tassin, a Brusly city council member who is seeking re-election. The local district attorney will determine if charges are warranted.