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BATON ROUGE, La. - With the topple of the first domino later this week in Baton Rouge, the Saints football team could either be in New Orleans for the next

Louisiana lawmakers nix gas tax hike but advance plan to extend sales tax Mark Ballard BATON ROUGE -- Saying something must be done to find the money to fix the states crumbling highways and dangerous bridges, the Louisiana Houses tax-writing committee rejected the latest effort to increase the tax on gasoline but advanced a bill that would extend the temporary sales tax increase. On an 8-8 vote late Tuesday night, the House Ways & Means Committee sidelined House Bill 615. The measure started...