One week from today, you can start filing your state income tax returns. The very easiest way to do so is electronically, for free, through the department’s online portal known as LaTAP. Byron Henderson with the Louisiana Department of Revenue says if for some reason you can’t use LaTAP, you do have other options.

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Senator John Kennedy’s quest to end welfare payments to dead people heads to President Trump’s desk. Kennedy says the catalyst behind this is the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File, which gets updated anytime someone dies.

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The Social Security Administration said it needs congressional approval to do so, so that’s what Kennedy’s bill provides.

Senator Bill Cassidy says he will continue to seek re-election despite President Trump endorsing Congresswoman Julia Letlow in the U-S Senate race. Joe Gallinaro has the story.

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Two school buses in Caddo Parish crashed late this morning as they were headed to the Krewe of Harambee Martin Luther King Day parade in Shreveport. Shreveport Fire says two vehicles cut in front of one of the buses; and when that bus stopped short, the other bus rear-ended it. One adult and 11 students were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.