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Variety of hunting supplies to be eligible during Louisiana's Second Amendment sales tax holiday
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A variety of hunting supplies will be eligible for exemption from local and state taxes during Louisiana's annual Second Amendment sales tax holiday taking place this weekend, the state Department of Revenue said Tuesday. Officials said the exemption applies...
2 Louisiana Supreme Court candidates disqualified, leaving 1 on the ballot
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An upcoming election in a new majority-Black state Supreme Court district in Louisiana may already be decided after two of three candidates were disqualified from the race under an opinion issued by the very court they were running for. The high court's...
Louisiana high court temporarily removes Judge Eboni Johnson Rose from Baton Rouge bench amid probe
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The state's highest court has voted to temporarily remove a Baton Rouge judge from the bench, agreeing with the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana that she poses a threat of “serious harm to the public" if she continues to serve. The Louisiana Supreme Court's...
Race for Louisiana's new second majority-Black congressional district is heating up
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In a critical election year, the race for Louisiana's new mostly Black congressional district is heating up as three candidates — including a longtime Democratic state lawmaker and former congressman and an 80-year-old Republican who is a former state senator —...
How to keep guns off Bourbon Street? Designate a police station as a school
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A police station in New Orleans' French Quarter will be designated a vocational technical school in a move that will instantly outlaw gun possession in the surrounding area — including a stretch of bar-lined Bourbon Street — as a new Louisiana law eliminating the need for...
