Baton Rouge Representative Patricia Smith’s bill that would allow high school students to participate in a national survey on sexual risks failed to get approval in the Senate Education committee. Smith explained the survey could help Louisiana reduce teen pregnancy and rates of sexually transmitted diseases among teens…
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But opponents say these invasive questions would not help in anway and the measure was voted down on a four to two vote.

The Revenue Estimating Conference met this morning and did not change next fiscal year’s revenue forecast, which lawmakers were hoping for to reduce the budget deficit. Economist Manfred Dix says low tax collections impacted the estimates…:
CUT 9 (07) “relatively low”
Leaders says legislators may need to take another look at raising revenues when they meet for a second special session next month.

State police are looking for two vehicles involved in a fatal hit and run that took the life of a skateboarder in Hammond. Trooper Dustin Dwight says 26-year-old Erin Gerhard was skateboarding down the right side of University Avenue near S-L-U’s campus around 10pm last night…:
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Dwight says troopers believe the vehicles involved are a pickup truck and a dark colored sedan.

Vernon Parish Sheriff Sam Craft said today that an autopsy has determined two-year-old Willow Rain Renteria-Molina died a day before she was reported missing by her mother. Her body was found last Friday in Beauregard Parish, but they believe the little girl was killed in Vernon. Sheriff Craft says the babysitter, 33-year-old Rodney “Donny” Bailey Junior remains a person of interest, but investigators are not ruling out the possibility someone else could be involved.