Three sales tax bills made it out of the House Ways and Means Committee today, which would generate hundreds of million dollars, but the proposals do not completely close the 500-million dollar deficit. TOPS and higher ed are facing cuts as of July 1st and LSU student government president Stewart Lockett says college students will rally at the state capitol at 5:30 …
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President Trump now plans to sign an executive order to allow children to stay with parents attempting to cross the border unlawfully. US Representative Ralph Abraham says he supports President Trump’s efforts.
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Ardagh Glass has notified the state that it’s planning to lay off just over 200 workers at its glass making facility in Lincoln Parish, because many of the companies they work with are using plastic containers instead. Simsboro Mayor Sybil Foster says the layoffs are an economic blow to her town…
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An estimated 450 people currently work at the facility.

59-year-old Gerald Manning is a free man today after spending 41 years in prison for the 1977 murder of Vonda Harris. Manning was just 17 years old at the time of the homicide and his attorney Kristen Wenstrom says recent DNA testing has exonerated him of the murder that even the victim’s family doesn’t think he committed…
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Manning plans to live with his mother in Monroe.