Many parents will see the first of six-monthly enhanced child tax credits in their bank account today, 36-hundred dollars for parents with children under the age of six and 3-thousand dollars for ages six to 17…
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A Franklin man has been arrested after allegedly setting a fire to a mobile home in Centerville that killed his five-year-old nephew and also caused critical injuries to his girlfriend. 49-year-old Derwin Hamilton has been charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder.

Visitation is today for Webster Parish Sheriff’s deputy William “Billy” Earl Collins Junior, who was fatally shot on Friday night responding to a disturbance call. He was working as a part-time Doyline Police Officer when he was shot and Doyline Police Chief Robert Hayden calls Collins a family man and an overall good person…
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The man who shot Collins is in custody. Visitation is tonight from 5 to 8 PM at First Bossier Church in Bossier City.

The federal government says drug overdose deaths in the United States hit an all-time high of 93-thousand last year and in Louisiana, there was a 48-percent increase in 2020. LSU Health New Orleans Chief of Community Medicine Doctor Ben Springgate…
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