According to the Louisiana Workforce Commission, oil and gas jobs in Louisiana continued their decline in June, dropping to the lowest level in almost 10 years. Eric Smith, Associate Director of the Tulane Energy Insitute, says these jobs are some of the best jobs in the state:
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Mining and logging jobs, where many oil and gas jobs are classified, fell by another 300 jobs last month, bringing the total number of jobs lost this year to 6,000.

Meanwhile Governor Bobby Jindal announces a $265 million dollar ammonia plant is coming to Grant Parish. They say the project in Pollock will create 85 new direct jobs with an avergae annual salary of $55,000.
Construction is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2016 and scheduled to be complete in 26 months.

A survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that more teenage girls are using the morning after pill. Dr. Valerie Williams, Assistant professor in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at LSU Health, says more teens are taking the pill now because it’s easier to get over the counter…:
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The report indicates more than 1 in 5 sexually active teen girls have used the morning after pill from 2001 to 2013 when it was 1 in 12 a decade earlier.

A woman and her girlfriend are facing charges in Jefferson Parish accused of shooting their children with BB guns when they wouldn’t listen. Police charged 34-year-old Tomeka Stair and 21-year-old Shebria Turner with three counts of cruelty to a juvenile.