Business Facilities names Louisiana Economic Development’s FastStart the best workforce training program in the country. Jeff Palermo has more:
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A poll on the October State Treasurer’s race finds it to be a wide open contest among well-funded Republicans Angele Davis, Neil Riser and John Schroder. The survey was done by John Couvillon with JMC Analytics:
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He says he found 60 percent of voters are undecided.

The Department of Children and Family Services launches a program aimed at improving the foster care system. DCFS Secretary Marketa Garner Walters says they want to raise expectations for foster parents and caregivers through the new Quality Parenting Initiative…:
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On any given day, there are more than 4,000 Louisiana children in foster care.

Cops have identified the 61-year-old Livingston Parish man who was found dead Sunday near Walker. They say Rick McBride appears to have suffered a fatal gunshot wound, and officials are still trying to determine what happened, and who is responsible.