The full House is scheduled to debate the proposed $46-billion state budget bill today…
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One day after one House committee approved a pay raise for state lawmakers that would more than double their annual salary, another House committee rejected a proposal to increase the minimum wage in Louisiana from $7.25 to ten-dollars an hour. Opponents say a higher minimum wage would mean less jobs for low earning workers.

Bossier City authorities credit a hotel manger for helping them apprehend a man who was on a killing spree. Police spokesperson Louis Johnson says 50-year-old Cortrell Burks fled to a nearby hotel after fatally shooting two people during an armed robbery Tuesday morning at a gas station off of I-20…
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Burks is also charged in the stabbing death of a 40-year-old woman in Birmingham, Alabama.

The FDA has approved the world’s first RSV vaccine by pharmaceutical giant GSK. LSU Health New Orleans Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Fred Lopez says the vaccine would target adults who are 60 and older….
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The CDC still has to give approval, which is expected next month.