Louisiana’s unemployment rate is at a three-year-low, according to new numbers from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Don Molino has more…
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The good economic news doesn’t stop there. Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain expects Louisiana farmers will benefit from a new trade agreement that results in China importing U-S rice for the first time ever…
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China imports an estimated five million tons of rice every year.

Twenty-one hundred soliders from Fort Polk in Vernon Parish will deploy to to Iraq this fall for an antiterrorism operation. Base spokesperson Kim Reischling says support is in place to help spouses and children that are left behind when their loved ones are overseas…
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Reischling says once members of the third Brigade Combat Team deploy, there will be just under two-thousand active soliders at the base.

Some shocking allegations have come out against David Wade Correctional Center in Homer. A lawsuit has been filed claiming mentally ill prisoners are forced to bark like dogs, before they were fed. Attorney Katie Schwartzmann says the Advovacy Center has been denied access to talk with the prisoners about the claims…
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The state department of corrections is not commenting on the suit.