After an advocacy group urges voters to vote “no” on Amendment Eight, we’re hearing from the author of that amendment. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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A Monroe man has been arrested and charged with second degree murder after Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s investigators say he admitted to shooting a 13 year old boy. 23 year old Joshua Darnell Swan was arrested after deputies found the body of a teenager who’d been reported missing– inside a dumpster on Sunday shot in the head Authorities say three other juveniles witnessed the shooting.
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State Treasurer John Fleming says it’s time to increase the state’s homestead exemption. Fleming says the current 75-hundred-dollar exemption was set in 1980 and has not increased in 46 years. He says if adjusted for inflation, it would be about 35-thousand dollars today.
Raising the homestead exemption in Louisiana would require a change to the state constitution, which would first need two thirds approval in the House and Senate and then a majority of Louisiana voters.
Saints owner Gayle Benson was uncharacteristically blunt when addressing the team’s 1-and-4 start. She said the performance has been unacceptable, and head coach Kellen Moore says everyone in the building wants the same thing.