A technical issue resulted in 76-hundred unemployment claimants receiving an erroneous message claiming they owed overpayment money to the state and feds. Louisiana Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Dejoie says they are working with their vendor to resolve the issue, and it should be taken care of without most claimants needing to get involved.
The error resulted in some receiving requests for over ten thousand dollars of back payments.
Haunted Houses will be allowed to open this year but under strict permitting requirements and pandemic health restrictions. Fire Marshal Butch Browning says only 50 people total will be allowed in the building…
Group sizes will be limited to six people.
Hurricane Laura had a substantial effect on the agriculture industry and Monroe pecan farmer Abraham Lincoln says his nuts were severely impacted. Lincoln says the damage to his nuts is even more detrimental since this year appeared to be a promising harvest. On a good year, his operation will move about 3 million pounds of nuts, but this year, he anticipates it will be closer to a quarter-million pounds.
Cut 7 (05) “…on the ground.”
Lincoln says he invested extra care into the crop that would have been harvested by the first of October. Nuts that were knocked out of trees are not salvageable.
Cameron Police Jury Vice President Scott Trahan estimates over half of the homes in the storm-ravaged parish were completely destroyed by Hurricane Laura. At the Sacred Heart Graveyard, 150 caskets floated away from their tombs. Trahan says after having similar incidents in recent storms it’s time the parish starts filling caskets with concrete…
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A Cemetery Task Force has been formed to help hunt down, identify, and rebury the lost caskets.