Louisiana hopes to generate one-point-four million dollars in revenue by selling over seven-hundred underutilized state vehicles at auction. Division of Administration assistant commissioner Jan Cassidy says these vehicles are not being used enough by various state agencies, so the decision has been made to auction them off..

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The vehicles will be auctioned off in East Baton Rouge Parish.

The United States Postal Service says if you are shipping by standard post, today is the last day to get that package in the mail for an on-time Christmas delivery. Spokesman McKinney Boyd says today is the post office’s busiest day where they’ll process in the neighborhood of 354,000 packages statewide…

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He says if you are shipping by First Class or Priority Mail, the deadline is Saturday for a Christmas delivery.
A man who was once the janitor at Port Barre Elementary School and years later became the principal is being featured in a People Magazine series called “Heroes Among Us.” Joseph “Gabe” Sonnier says on a day in the mid-80s the then-principal at the school told the janitor he knew he was very smart and capable of doing more with his life…

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Sonnier says later he decided to go to school full-time while he continued working as the custodian. Sonnier, now 53, says he got his master’s degree and then was appointed principal at the same school where he worked as a janitor for 27 years.