The Louisiana Workforce Commission has launched a new tool that helps people find careers that interest them and support the standard of living they want to maintain. LWC spokesman Tom Guarisco says users can learn how much they need to earn by choosing from 8 regions in Louisiana then making lifestyle choices about housing, food, transportation. He says the app will then connect you to the appropriate career…

cut 8 (11) “that will prepare you”

Guarisco says you can find the tool online at laworks.net/mylife.

The annual University of Michigan “Monitoring the Future” report shows, for the first time, more teens are smoking e-cigarettes than tobacco cigarettes. DHH Health Promotions Director Caroline Brazeel says one reason for e-cigarette’s popularity is the tobacco industry marketing e-cigarettes to teenagers…

cut 5 (09) “younger audience”

It is cited that another possible reason for the growing popularity of e-cigarettes among teens is the perception that they do not harm your health, but Brazeel says nicotine can have a negative impact on brain development.

Christmas Eve is one week away and 20% of parents say they plan to buy their daughters products from the Disney movie “Frozen” which dethrones Barbie as the number one girls gift for the first time in the National Retail Federation’s Christmas survey. NRF’s Kathy Grannis says daughters also went hi-tech this year…

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LEGO sets top the boys’ Christmas list.

A Mississippi man has been cited for allegedly drowning a deer in the Mississippi River in Concordia Parish. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries spokesman Adam Einck says a wildlife and fisheries’ agent found 40-year-old David Hayes of Natchez, Mississippi with a dead eight point buck lying in front of the vessel. He says Hayes admitted to drowning the buck in the river on the Louisiana side…

Cut 14 (10) “while it was swimming”

Einck says they don’t see many cases where a person is cited for drowning deer.