According to The Reason Foundation, the condition of Louisiana’s highways rank 40th in the nation. A state Department of Transportation spokesperson says Louisiana has spent six-point-four billion dollars since 2008 in highway improvements. But study author, David Hartgen, says their ranking also takes into account highway safety and Louisiana doesn’t fare well in that category…

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The Los Angeles think tank says Louisiana has fallen 16 spots from its previous report.

Officials in Lafourche Parish are alerting residents that a Larose resident was found deceased last week and the Department of Health and Hospitals confirms he had the West Nile Virus. Parish Administrator Archie Chaisson says they’ve started a very aggressive spraying campaign…:

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According to DHH this makes the 5th death from the disease in Louisiana this year.

The Caddo Parish Sheriff’s office says a United States Postal worker is under arrest for allegedly stealing marijuana from packages he was supposed to be delivering. CPSO spokesman Bobby Herring says they got an anonymous tip that 31-year-old Russell Leon Ellis of Shreveport was stealing the mail he thought contained pot…

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Herring says Ellis was charged with possession of schedule I marijuana.

The Louisiana Film Entertainment Association announces a plan to commission a study on the economic impact of Louisiana’s film tax credit incentive program. LFEA President Will French says this study will look at every component that could be providing an economic benefit to the state because of the industry and try to account for what that benefit likely is…

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The group will launch a Kickstarter campaign later this month to help with the cost of the study.