Flood insurance premiums are about to go up. State Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says premium hikes for primary residences are capped at 18-percent each year and If you have a camp, you can expect an even higher premium boost…

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In addition to the rate increases, property owners will have to pay a surcharge, $25 per year for your primary residence and $250 for businesses, rentals, or secondary residences. The increases will go into effect April 1.

In an effort to help the state’s budget problems, Governor Bobby Jindal is looking at selling the remainder of a multi-billion dollar settlement from tobacco manufacturers. State Treasurer John Kennedy says the Jindal administration has raided all other pots of money and this is the last one left…

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Despite Kennedy’s concerns, the Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation voted to begin the process of selling the tobacco settlement.

New employment numbers show that there were 7500 less people working in January than in December in the state. Louisiana Workforce Commission Executive Director Curt Eysink says even though there was the typical job drop that you see in January, we’re still employing far more people this year than we were this time last year…:

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Louisiana’s unemployment rate for January is 7-percent.

State Police say a truck driver from Alabama died when he was run over by a trooper who was looking for him in Madison Parish. Sgt. James Anderson says they received a report early Tuesday morning that an 18-wheeler was stuck in the lane of travel on US Highway 65 about 6 miles north of Tallulah…

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Anderson says 47-year-old David Watford of Cottonwood, Alabama was pronounced dead at the scene.