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8A SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2018 THE NEWS-STAR MN-1000680135 Ge ou ick ets for the ST UD RE AM HO ME at the sh ow Find Fresh Ideas and Expert Advice At NoPlaceLikeHome! Saturday, February 17th 9am-5pm Sunday, February 18th 11am-5pm Monroe Civic Center Arena Over 100 Exhibitors Under One Roof! The list of exhibitors includes kitchen and bath remodeling, electronics, interior and exterior design, heating and air, sound systems, and financial services. Visitors will also find specialists in windows, doors, flooring, insulation, painting, patio construction, landscaping and other vendors who are on hand to offer advice and showcase new products. Formore information Call 318-387-6795 or go to Home Shows at www.hbanela.com Home Builders Association of Northeast Louisiana Ph: 318-387-6795 3105 DeSoto Street Monroe, LA 71201 Former Louisiana detective admits to sex with teen GONZALES A former Louisiana detective has admitted to hav- ing sex with a 14-year-old girl in a plea deal that will send him to prison for a year. The Advocate reported 33-year-old William Lanoux of Prairieville pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of carnal knowledge of a juvenile and prosecutors agreed to drop a malfeasance in count. Prosecutors had accused Lanoux of soliciting and having sex with the teen- ager in his unmarked Ascension Parish vehicle June 13, 2016.

Lanoux, who was on duty at the time, had ar- ranged via social media to meet the girl. He says he thought he was having con- sensual sex with an 18-year-old. State District Judge Jason Verdigets ordered Lanoux to report to jail April 15. His attorney, Joseph Long, declined to comment Friday. New Orleans police look for missing Mississippi man NEW ORLEANS New Orleans police are looking for a Mississippi man who was last seen on Mardi Gras, on Bour- bon Street.

Police spokesman Aaron Looney says 57-year-old Johnny Gatlin is from Pur- vis, Mississippi. A news release Friday says de- scribed as 5-foot-8, with a medium build. A photograph shows that black, with a closely-trimmed mustache and goatee. Police say he was wearing a green jacket, blue jeans and white baseball cap when last seen about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday on the 700 block of Bourbon Street.

Looney says police received any leads as of early Friday afternoon. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to contact Eighth District detectives at 504-658-6080. Louisiana collecting more state taxes from worker paychecks BATON ROUGE Louisiana taxpay- ers can expect to see a bigger bite out of their paychecks for state taxes. The state revenue department ad- justed the amount of money employers withhold from paychecks for state tax- es, in response to federal tax law changes approved by Congress and President Donald Trump. The updated withholding tables took Friday.

income tax laws are tied to federal income tax policy. The changes lowering federal income tax li- abilities will boost state tax collections. Louisiana is estimated to receive an ad- ditional $226 million in personal in- come taxes annually because of the changes, money expected to lower a $1 billion budget gap. The revenue department says the up- dated withholding tables are aimed at keeping workers from having a large state income tax bill at the end of the year. Senate Baton Rouge-based US attorney nominee BATON ROUGE The U.S.

Senate has veteran prosecutor Brandon Fremin to serve as U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana Thursday comes more than three months after President Donald Trump nominated him for the position. Fremin, a Baton Rouge native, most recently has served as director of the criminal division for Louisiana Attorney General He previ- ously worked as an investigator and prosecutor for the East Baton Rouge Parish district and as a federal prosecutor in the Baton Rouge- based Middle District. Corey Amundson has served as the acting U.S. attorney since Walt resignation last March.

Green was among dozens of U.S. attorneys who were ordered to resign several weeks af- ter inauguration. The district is comprised of nine par- ishes. Men charged with murder in Louisiana fatal overdose SLIDELL Two men have been charged with second-degree murder in the fatal heroin overdose of a Louisiana woman. NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune re- ported 25-year-old Warren Brown and 39-year-old Oren Bowens are charged in the death of 23-year-old Shantell Jack- son.

A Wednesday St. Tammany Parish statement says the agency arrested the two men under a state law allowing for the persecution of people accused of selling or providing narcotics that lead to a death. It says Brown is accused of purchasing heroin from Bowen and giving it to Jack- son, his girlfriend who fatally overdosed in October 2017. Bowens and Brown are each in custo- dy with on a $750,000 bond. unclear if they have lawyers.

Associated Press STATE BRIEFS NEW ORLEANS A man convicted in the shooting death of retired New Or- leans Saints star Will Smith has ap- pealed the conviction and 25-year-sen- tence arising from a confrontation after a 2016 collision. Cardell Hayes was convicted of man- slaughter in December 2016 in death and of attempted manslaughter because wife, Raquel, was shot in both legs during the encounter in April of that year. But attorney Paul Barker wrote in an appeal Thursday that the judge who tried Hayes should have granted a new trial because a witness who contacted Barker the day after conviction said he had heard two guns at the time of the shooting, but- tressing claim that he had in self-defense. Prosecutors on Friday rejected the ar- guments as lawyers had argued at trial that he only because the retired NFL player was drunk and violent and had grabbed a gun following their colli- sion. No one else Smith ever held a gun.

A loaded semi-auto- matic handgun was found loaded but unused on the front seat of car. appeal Thursday also con- tended the trial judge, Camille Buras, should have allowed testimony about 2010 arrest on a domestic abuse charge. That would have shown he could be violent when drunk, Barker wrote. Barker also wrote in the that other errors included allowing vic- tim impact testimony before the sentencing phase, and by re-reading jury instructions. District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro said in a statement Friday that prosecu- tors had proved guilt and that Buras managed trial fairly and falsehoods within this appeal make only one thing clear: That Cardell Hayes has yet to accept the conse- quences of his rash decision to open on an innocent the emailed statement said.

It added that lat- est arguments make clear he yet to begin the rehabilitation necessary to one day return as a responsible and law- abiding member of our Smith, a 34-year-old father of three, was a defensive leader on the Saints team that lifted spirits in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. He helped carry the team to a winning sea- son in 2006 and a Super Bowl victory four years later. His death in a dispute over was shocking, even for a city with a high rate of homicides. In his Thursday, Barker said a new witness, Michael Burnside, emailed him the last day of the trial, when he was not checking email be- cause he was with closing arguments and jury The email said Burnside had heard two guns at the time Smith was shot. Reached the next day, Burnside said he had heard four consistent with a small-cali- ber gun before a consistent with a larger-caliber weapon like Burnside states that the of the larger caliber weapon overlapped the last of the smaller caliber Barker wrote.

That backs up testimony that Smith at him he said. Barker also said the judge let trial lawyer John Fuller question retired Saints running back Deuce McAllister, the prosecution witness, about for abusing Raquel Smith while out at a bar in Smith was arrested outside a bar, ac- cused of pulling his wife down the street by her hair. He was indicted in 2011 on misdemeanor charges of domestic abuse battery and public intoxication. Lafayette Parish prosecutors dropped the charges in 2012. Man convicted in death of Saints star Will Smith appeals Janet McConnaughey ASSOCIATED PRESS.