Louisiana will receive one-point-four billion dollars in federal money for flood and hurricane protection projects. Baton Rouge Republican Congressman Garret Graves says there’s 343-million dollars for the long-delayed Comite River Diversion Canal in East Baton Rouge….
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The state is also getting 760-million dollars to build an 18-mile levee in St. John the Baptist Parish to hold back water from Lake Pontchartrain.

The state Revenue Department plans on collecting sales taxes on all item purchases online by the start of next year. A recent US Supreme Court decision paved the way for collection of sales taxes from stores without a physical presence in states they ship too. LDR Secretary Kimberly Robinson on how much the state may collect….
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A man sentenced earlier this year to five years in prison for driving drunk into a crowd of Mardi Gras parade goers is set to be released from prison later this month as a result of the criminal reform legislation passed last year. Twenty-six-year-old Neilson Rizzuto injured 32 people at the Endymion parade in 2017 and pleaded guilty to 11 felony counts. Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino on why Rizzuto is not serving more time with all of the sentences being served consecutively….
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Rizzuoto’s expected release date is July 20.