A new study from the Violence Policy Center finds Louisiana ranks second in the country for the rate of women who are murdered by men. VPC Legislative Director, Kristen Rand, says this is the sixth year in a row that Louisiana has made the top 10, and she believes that’s because of the state’s gun laws.

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Alaska was the only state with a higher rate of women murdered by men.

Movie star and Livingston parish resident John Schneider is upset there are still piles of trash on the side of the roads in flood damaged communities a month after the flood. He says debris removal should have begun immediately after people cleaned out their homes.

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A summer for the weather record books comes to an end tomorrow. Jeff Palermo has the story…

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Louisiana has two of the country’s fastest growing economies, while also having two of the fastest-shrinking, according to data from the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis. Baton Rouge grew by over 5-percent and Lake Charles grew by about 8-percent. But the numbers show Houma-Thibodaux has the nation’s second worst economy, shrinking nearly 8-percent and Lafayette shrunk four-percent.