The state Department of Agriculture and Forestry is teaming up with the LSU AgCenter to fight citrus canker disease. Michael Farrar has more…
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Will the state House come to an agreement on solving a looming one-billion dollar budget deficit as a result of expiring state sales taxes? President of the Public Affairs Research Council Robert Travis Scott says he
believes Democrats will agree to a bill that would place the state sales tax rate above four-percent, if Republicans agree to income tax bracket changes or cutting a tax break for middle and upper income wage earners who itemize their deductions. Scott says it appears an agreement can be reached to reduce most of the shortfall…
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A former school principal at a Christian school in Franklin Parish has been indicted by a grand jury on eleven counts of sexual misconduct. District Attorney Mack Lancaster says 41-year-old Stephen Couch of Winnsboro was a teacher, later a principal, at the Apostolic Tabernacle Christian School in Winnsboro when the crimes allegedly occurred…
All the male victims were aged 14 to 18 at the time the offenses believed to have occurred. Lancaster says he knows many of them along with their families and finds it hard to believe a trusted member of the community would be accused of such crimes…
Stephen Couch is the son of the Reverend Michael Couch, who serves as the director and president of the church. An arraignment hearing for Stephen Couch will be held in March.