August was another record breaking month in terms of employment. The Louisiana Workforce Commission released new job numbers today and non-farm employment grew by 30-thousand over the last 12 months and a record one-point-nine million people were employed in August. L-W-C spokeserson Tom Guarisco…

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He says private employers added 36-thousand jobs over the year.

An annual study released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found Louisiana is now ranked 6th in the nation, instead of first for obesity. Obesity researcher at LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center, LeAnne Redman, believes that in a state where we love food at events like tailgating and Mardi Gras, the culture is somewhat changing…

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Louisiana’s obesity rate is dropping for the first time in 30 years.

A Donaldsonville man who pleaded guilty in 1995 to negligent homicide in crash that killed a ten-week old child has avoided prison. Stanley White received a two-year prison sentence 19 years ago, but was never given a report date. He was re-sentenced this week to two years of home incarceration. White’s attorney, Stephen Moore, says to send White to jail after all these years of system failures would have been vengeance, not justice…

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The infant’s parents say justice was not served.

It’s been 4 years since the Deepwater Horizon well was capped and several agencies continue to look at ways we can restore Louisiana’s struggling coast. Louisiana Nature Conservancy Director, Dr. Keith Ouchley, feels significant changes can be made within the next 10 years…

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He says this is an important time for the Gulf restoration process.