Plenty of reaction to a federal judge’s preliminary ruling that the state’s Ten Commandments law is unconstitutional. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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A woman who claimed her son had been kidnapped is facing charges herself this morning. St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Major Mark LeBlanc says Artasia Viges (VEE-zhees) and her son, who’s not even five, actually had a disagreement while she was driving in Eunice.
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LeBlanc says Viges made up the kidnapping story to cover up the truth.
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The Louisiana House has approved two big pieces of Governor Jeff Landry’s tax plan. The first bill to head to the Senate for its approval is a measure to reduce individual income taxes to a flat three-percent rate. The Landry administration wants to offset the revenue loss by taxing services currently not taxed and renewing a temporary sales tax that expires next year. But New Orleans Representative Mandie Landry says none of that has happened yet.
Keep Louisiana Beautiful is hosting Regional Litter Summits in Louisiana this week to address the state’s litter problem. KLB Executive Director Susan Russell says the summits are an effort to understand the challenges local governments face in managing litter and explore ways to assist them…like citations.