With a week to go in the special session, the House Ways and Means committee approves three different sales tax bills. Jeff Palermo has the story…
A major employer near the town of Simsboro in Lincoln Parish is expected to lay off about 200 employees next month. Ardagh Glass says the layoffs will take effect July 23rd. Simsboro Mayor Sybil Foster says the move will hit the community hard.
Cut 3 (04) “…some effect of it.”
The separation of families coming into the United States illegally is causing a firestorm of controversy across the nation. President Trump has signed an executive order to allow children to stay with parents attempting to cross the border unlawfully. Governor John Bel Edwards announced today he’s not removing a three-member Louisiana National Guard air team from the Mexico border that assists with border patrol. On his monthly call-in show the governor says removing the team would risk the lives of law enforcement along the border.
Cut 11 (14) “…as a result of that”
A 59 year old man walked out of prison as a free man for the first time in his adult life after serving over 40 years for a murder in Monroe. Gerald Manning was exonerated of his conviction in the 1977 death of Vonda Harris. His attorney, Kristin Wenstrom, says he accepted an opportunity to speed up the process of his freedom.