A House committee approves legislation to apply local and state sales taxes on 41 services that are currently not taxed. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating the deaths of two women found inside a home in Lake Charles. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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LSU football has a rare two game losing streak, so is a change at quarterback needed? Sean Richardson has the story…
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The House Ways and Means Committee approved legislation that would apply sales taxes to 41 services currently not taxed. This would generate 500 million dollars in tax revenues and help offset the loss of tax dollars from a proposed cut to income taxes. New Orleans Representative Mandie Landry voted against the bill and rattled off several services that would be taxed because of this legislation…
House Ways and Means approved the bill to expand the sales tax base on a 16 to 2 vote. Landry was one of the two lawmakers who voted against it because it would tax several services, including home repair…
The bill’s author, Columbia Representative Neil Riser, says the expansion of the sales tax base is part of Governor Landry’s tax reform plan. And the entire plan will result in more money in the pockets of Louisiana residents…
Louisiana Revenue Secretary Richard Nelson also says the plan also calls for the elimination of sales taxes on prescription drugs…
The measure could receive a vote on the House floor by the end of the week. The Louisiana House on Wednesday approved a bill to charge sales taxes on digital items, including Netflix.
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The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating the deaths of two young women inside a home in Lake Charles. Sheriff Stitch Guillory says deputies arrived at a home and heard gunfire. That’s when they called in the SWAT team.
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The women are identified as Dahlen Semar and Madison Guillory – no relation to the sheriff – and they were both 23 years old. Sheriff Guillory says even though this appears to be either a murder-suicide or a double-suicide given the fact that the women were the only ones inside, the investigation is still ongoing.
Sheriff Guillory says 24-year-old Gabriel Williams was the one who contacted authorities, and that he provided false and misleading information to deputies.
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Williams was arrested and booked into the Calcasieu Correctional Center; his bond is pending. Sheriff Guillory says Williams has been ruled out as the shooter.
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Change is on the way in the weather here in Louisiana. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says with our recent rains, we’re at a heightened risk for flash flooding.
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And Keim says a cold front is going to drop temperatures considerably.
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And with those low overnight temperatures will come lower daytime high temperatures, making for an absolutely delightful weekend.
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For the second time in three years, LSU women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey has landed the nation’s top recruiting class. This time it’s for the 2025 recruiting class, as four, five-star prospects signed with the Lady Tigers on National Signing Day. Matthew Brune (Brew-knee) covers LSU for the Bengal Tiger and says high school players are drawn to Mulkey, because she’s a winner…
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Brune says LSU got a big time scorer out of New Mexico in Bella Hines and signed three other players
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Grace Knox averaged 17 points and 12 rebounds as a junior. Hines, a combo guard from Albuquerque, averaged 32 points a game last season. The other two signees are Iowa’s player of the year, Divine Bourrage and Zakiyah Johnson, who has three state high school championships in Kentucky.
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LSU Coach Brian Kelly says Garrett Nussmeier is still the starting quarterback for the Fighting Tigers despite committing six turnovers over the last six quarters. The mistakes have contributed to the Tigers two-game losing streak, but Kelly says they have not considered making a change at quarterback…
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Redshirt freshman Rickie Collins and Vanderbilt transfer AJ Swann would be the other options, if Kelly wanted to make a change. Swann started 12 games for the Commodores, But Kelly says they still believe in Nussmeier…
Nussmeier was having a very good season, until throwing three interceptions in the second half against Texas A-and-M on October 26th. Nuss threw two more interceptions and lost a fumble against Alabama. Kelly says they are looking at simplifying things for their first-year starter at quarterback…
Kelly says they are also working on improving Nussmeier’s footwork. He says footwork forces you into right decisions. The 22nd ranked Tigers at Florida on Saturday.
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Louisiana Tech has a tough test this Saturday as the Bulldogs travel to Western Kentucky. The Hilltoppers are 5-and-0 in Conference USA and they have one of the top quarterbacks in the league in six-foot-six Cade Veltkamp who has thrown for nearly two-thousand yards and 19 touchdowns. Tech Coach Sonny Cumbie…
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The Bulldogs lead Conference USA in total defense as Tech is allowing just 312 yards a game. LSU transfer Kolbe Fields has led this unit as he leads the team in tackles, tackles for a loss and forced fumbles. Cumbie says the former Rummel star is exactly the type of player they expected to get…