President Biden has dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. House Speaker Mike Johnson says Republicans may sue if Democrats go through with a plan to replace Biden with Harris, because the states voted for the president as nominee during the primaries and caucuses. LSU political science professor Robert Hogan…
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New Orleans Representative and Democrat Mandie Landry says Biden and his family have sacrificed so much in the last few years and she’s glad he was the one to choose to step down as the party’s nominee.
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Louisiana Revenue Secretary Richard Nelson is pushing Governor Jeff Landry to hold a special session next month on tax reform. Nelson would like to see the state’s income tax rate reduced…
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Nelson says state can offset the loss of that revenue from a lower income tax by eliminating several different sales tax exemptions.

Two 18-year-olds were killed in a head-on crash in Lafourche Parish involving an underage immigrant driver, who authorities say was impaired. State Police Trooper Ross Brennan says 18-year-old Axel Flores-Cordova of Honduras slammed head on into a vehicle near the Fourchon area. Flores-Cordova faces multiple charges…
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The crash happened shortly after 1 AM and it claimed the lives of 18-year-old Rylan Oncale of Raceland and 18-year-old Taliyah Crochet of Houma.