1:30 PM Newscast

A new report says the robots are coming for Louisiana’s jobs, and the state could face a significant loss of jobs due to automation in the next decade…

cut  2 (30) I’m Jeff Palermo”  

Three recent LSU graduates are dead following a helicopter crash in the Bahamas on Thursday that claimed the lives of seven. Jillian Clark, Brittney Searson, and Kameron Cline were all members of the Phi Mu sorority. Cline was the daughter of billionaire coal mining entrepreneur Chris Cline of West Virginia, who owned the chopper. The crash is under investigation as to why it occurred.

Within the next three months Entergy customers will see a five to seven dollar monthly increase in electric costs. Entergy Spokesperson Lee Sabatini says these kinds of rate increases are necessary to pay for more efficient facilities, which will more than pay for themselves in the long-term.

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Roughly three and a half dollars of that increase will kick in on your July bill.
This week 600 high school students from across the nation met in North Carolina to participate in the YMCA’s 52nd Annual Conference on National Affairs. One of the six presiding officers at the mock government program was LSU freshman Drake Brignac. The Louisiana Youth Governor says the experience with students from 36 different states was an education like no other.

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Brignac plans to study political communications at LSU.