Target and Walmart workers will see more money in their paycheck. Walmart says Associates in Louisiana will receive 13.7 million dollars in bonuses today, while Target announced it’s raising its minimum hourly wage to 12-dollars this spring and 15-dollars by the end of 2020. UNO Business Professor Mark Rosa says this is the effect of the recent federal tax overhaul…
Baton Rouge Representative Pat Smith wants to send some convicted criminals home if they have kids to take care of. It’s part of House bill 264 that would give judges more flexibility on deciding how to punish parents who have committed non-violent crimes. Smith says, if passed, it will be up to district court judges to determine how they serve their punishment…
A State Trooper’s kindness has gone viral after he found a wallet on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras in New Orleans and personally paid to send it back to the owner. Senior Trooper Melissa Matey says Alexandria Master Trooper John Jett truly showed what being a state trooper is all about…
Cut 12 (08) “particular circumstance.”
The Reddit post showing the wallet and a personal letter from Jett has been viewed nearly 100-thousand times
The Bonnet Carre Spillway in St. Charles Parish is in operation for the 12th time since the 1930s. Water from the rising Mississippi River is flowing into Lake Pontchartrain, Colonel Mike Clancy of the Corps New Orleans office says they are easing levee levels by opening eight of the 350 bays on the flood control structure…