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Louisiana judge halts state police plans to clear New Orleans homeless camps before Thanksgiving

Nov. 25, 2024 18:40 PM EST

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana civil court judge on Monday halted state agencies' plans to forcibly clear homeless encampments in New Orleans. Orleans Parish Civil District Court Judge Ethel Julien issued a temporary restraining order blocking state police and two other agencies...

Louisiana GOP lawmakers want to make it easier to try juveniles as adults

Nov. 22, 2024 21:00 PM EST

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's Republican-controlled Legislature approved a constitutional amendment on Friday that would allow them to expand the number of crimes in which juveniles between 14 and 16 years old could be tried as adults. The state's constitution currently...

Louisiana lawmakers pass income and corporate tax cuts, raising statewide sales tax to pay for it

Nov. 22, 2024 20:55 PM EST

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s GOP-dominated legislature passed tax cuts on personal and corporate income on Friday in exchange for a statewide sales tax increase, giving Gov. Jeff Landry much of what he wanted after his original tax reform package faced mounting resistance from lawmakers...

Louisiana's governor raises major doubts about a stalled $3 billion coastal restoration project

Nov. 21, 2024 17:44 PM EST

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry raised serious objections Thursday to a $3 billion project long hailed as key to restoring the state's eroding coastline, decrying the growing cost and predicting dire harm to a coastal culture dependent on fishing, shrimping and oyster dredging. ...

Court ruling stops Louisiana from requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms for now

Nov. 20, 2024 16:07 PM EST

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana's plan to make all of the state's public school classrooms post the Ten Commandments next year remains on hold under an order Wednesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a state request to...

Louisiana governor's tax overhaul faces opposition as lawmakers and lobbyists horse-trade

Nov. 19, 2024 20:31 PM EST

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is pushing big plans to overhaul the state's complex tax code to deliver income and corporate tax cuts. But a Senate committee Tuesday introduced significant changes to the sweeping reform package in response to concerns raised by lawmakers,...

Sweeping tax overhaul in Louisiana hits snag on sales tax expansion

Nov. 14, 2024 21:36 PM EST

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers on Thursday postponed a vote on a key bill in Gov. Jeff Landry's sweeping and complex tax reform package. Most of Landry's proposed bills, granting approximately $2 billion in income and corporate tax cuts, have moved smoothly through...

LSU student arrested over threats to governor who wanted a tiger at college football games

Nov. 13, 2024 20:21 PM EST

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An LSU student has been arrested after prosecutors say he made an online threat to kill Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, who advocated for bringing a live tiger onto the field as part of a recent college football game. Landry, a Republican, helped revive the...

Louisiana asks court to block part of ruling against Ten Commandments in classrooms

Nov. 13, 2024 19:18 PM EST

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Lawyers for the state of Louisiana asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to immediately block a judge's ruling ordering education officials to tell all local districts that a law requiring schools to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms is unconstitutional. ...

Louisiana House greenlights Gov. Jeff Landry's tax cuts

Nov. 12, 2024 21:09 PM EST

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's GOP-dominated House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed individual and corporate tax cuts, along with a constitutional amendment — all key provisions in Gov. Jeff Landry's sweeping tax reform package, the centerpiece of the state's third...