While Louisiana’s unemployment rate worsened for a fifth straight month and reached five percent in August, a report from the Louisiana Workforce Commission indicates the number of people employed in August was 2.02 million, the second highest number for August in recorded history. L-W-C Director Ava Dejoie says any rise in unemployment can be attributed to a decline of jobs in the hospitality sector.
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Meanwhile, dozens of Louisiana emergency personnel are in Horry County, South Carolina helping local authorities and first responders with evacuations as waters continue to rise from Florence. State Fire Marshal Butch Browning…
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Browning says their deployment to the Carolinas is set to end Tuesday.

A 2015 incident where a McKinley High School Band member went to a Baton Rouge hospital after he was ordered to do 200 push-ups for being late to band practice ends with a 185,000 dollar settlement. Matt Doyle has more.
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Hahnville Quarterback Andrew Robison will reportedly not play in tonight’s game versus Destrehan, despite a court order allowing Robison to take the field and not face additional LHSAA punishment. The association has ruled Robison is ineligible to play for Hahnville, because recruiting violations occurred when he transferred from Vandebilt Catholic to Hahnville.