Oil prices will not rebound this year, according to experts at the International Energy Agency. Halen Doughty reports…
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There are 15 days left in the special legislative session that’s been called to address a 850 to 950 million dollar deficit this fiscal year. Governor John Bel Edwards has said it’ll take cuts to the budget and tax increases to close the gap. The House Ways and Means Committee is set to vote tomorrow on some of the governor’s tax proposals, including a one cent increase to the state’s sales tax.

The House Appropriations Committee approved multiple bills today in efforts to cut down on number of state contracts, which supporters say will save the state money. Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne says an examination of state contracts is ongoing and they plan to remove some of them in the coming weeks as part of their cost cutting plan.
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A man who cops say was acting strange at a Lafayette movie theater has been issued a summons for disturbing the peace. Corporal Paul Mouton says during a showing of Deadpool, witnesses reported seeing 35-year-old Christopher Harmason of New Iberia walking up and down the aisles. He says it doesn’t appear as though the man was an actual threat to anyone…:
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Mouton says in addition to the summons, Harmason was told not to come back to the theater.