It’s day three of the special session that’s attempting to resolve the state’s $957 million deficit. Barry Erwin, Head of the Council for a Better Louisiana, says legislators will be looking for both short-term and long-term solutions….:
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The session must end by March 9th, and tax increases couldn’t be considered in the regular session which begins in mid-March.

President Barack Obama is expected to nominate a successor to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, but Louisiana’s Republican US senators say the next President should select Scalia’s replacement. Senator David Vitter, who is a member of the judiciary committee, says they’ll vote on the President’s nomination in committee then it goes to the full Senate…:
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US Senator Bill Cassidy agrees with Vitter.

A former department of children and family services case worker faces charges for claiming to check on foster care children while employed by the state, but didn’t. Emelie Gunn has more…:
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The Shreveport Times is reporting that there was another ATV crash at the Muddy Bottoms Park in Webster Parish which claimed the life of someone. They say 40-year-old Jill Thomas lost her life in the incident and another person was critically injured. The newspaper reports that Thomas’ death is the third at the ATV park since Labor Day last year when two people lost their lives in crashes.