The US-House has passed three bills by Louisiana Congressman Charles Boustany that spotlight recent IRS controversies and would ultimately limit their power.

CUT 1 (33) “reporting”

The former Lafayette Police officer on trial this week for sexual battery while on duty has been found not guilty this afternoon. Officer Jackie Hagan Jr. was accused of sexual battery on a woman in November 2011.
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The Shreveport Police Department says a man is in jail today for allegedly beating a child so badly he had to be hospitalized. Corporal Marcus Hines says school officials contacted authorities after the 5-year-old child arrived to class yesterday…

CUT 3 (08) “to a serious degree”

Twenty-three year old Frank Butler has been booked on a charge of Second-degree Cruelty to a Juvenile.

A south Mississippi man was killed in an early morning head-on collision with a garbage truck just south of Clinton in East Feliciana Parish. Twenty-three year-old Cody Temple was prounced dead at the scene, and Trooper Jared Sandifer says they are investigating several factors in the crash…

CUT 14 (08) Q: ‘as we speak’

The driver of the garbage truck suffered minor injuries.