The House Ways and Means Committee is looking at proposed changes to the state sales tax today. Jeff Palermo has more on a proposal from Houma Representative Tanner Magee…:
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Columbia Senator Neil Riser sponsors a bill that would exempt flood victims from state income tax for the 2017 year…:
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He says it’s the least the state could do to help 2016 flood victims rebuild their lives.

State Police say a 62-year-old man is facing charges of vehicular homicide for allegedly driving drunk when he struck and killed a pedestrian in Terrebonne Parish. Master Trooper Brooks David says Albert Williams Jr. was driving down LA 24 in Houma shortly before 9 p.m. when he struck 43-year-old Byron Acosta…:
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Williams was booked into the Terrebonne Parish Correctional Center.

A Raceland man has been arrested for allegedly hitting his on and off again girlfriend after she made jokes about his dance moves. David Melancon with The Thibodaux Police Department says 34-year-old Cole Rodriguez was at a bar on the dance floor when things turned violent.:
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Rodriguez was booked with domestic abuse battery, resisting an officer and battery of a police officer.