While the nation saw an increase in median household income in 2016, Louisiana saw the largest decline in the country at 2.1-percent. Michael Ferrar has more…
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Another big day of college football is on tap. LSU visits Mississippi State in the SEC Opener. Louisiana Tech takes on Western Kentucky in a rematch of last year’s Conference USA title game. UL Lafayette is at Texas A-and-M, ULM hosts Southern Miss and the defending champs in the SWAC Grambling begin defense of their league title by hosting Jackson State.

The principal wanted by Baton Rouge police after allegedly locking a 5-year-old in a closet has turned himself in to authorities. Sgt. L’Jean McKneely says 31-year-old Shafeeq Deen has been charged with cruelty to a juvenile and false imprisonment…:
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He says other students at Laurel Oaks Charter School are coming forward claiming Deen punished them in similar ways.

If you’re shopping for a car, be on the lookout for flood damaged vehicles. That’s the advice from state attorney general Jeff Landry. Landry says if you suspect someone is knowingly selling a flood damaged vehicle, contact your local authorities or call the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Hotline at (800) 351-4889.
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Landry says if a vehicle is being sold for an unrealistically low price, it may have previously involved in a flood.