Louisiana’s unemployment rate for September was 4.3-percent, which is an 11-year-low according to the latest job figures from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Louisiana Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Dejoie says Baton Rouge and the Big Easy have made historic strides…
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But Shreveport lost three-thousand jobs over the year, Houma 28-hundred and Monroe lost one-hundred.

A poll from We Ask America finds the gubernatorial run-off between Democratic Incumbent John Bel Edwards and Republican challenger Eddie Rispone is a dead heat, with each candidate receiving 47-percent of the vote. Pollster Andrew Weissert says the governor’s support might be capped out…
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The run-off is November 16th.

State Police have identified the man who shot two people early this morning during a gathering at the Assembly Center on Grambling State’s campus. 19-year-old Pinceston Adams of Shreveport has been charged with two counts of attempted second degree murder. A police officer was shot in the leg, the other shooting victim is in serious condition.

A Lynyrd Skynyrd monument is set to be unveiled in Gillsburg, Mississippi on Sunday in commemoration of the anniversary of 1977 plane crash that forever became a part of the band’s legacy. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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