New labor data shows Louisiana’s jobless rate continues to drop for a 19th straight month. More from Michelle Southern…:
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Authorities in Baton Rouge have arrested the suspected shooter in last Friday morning’s mass shooting at a Southern University fraternity house that injured eleven people. U-S Marshals took into custody yesterday 22-year-old Jaicedric Williams. He’s been charged with 11 counts of attempted first-degree murder. The suspected shooter is not a student at Southern.

The Louisiana Attorney General’s Office and parish sheriff’s offices will distribute free child ID kits to students in kindergarten through fifth grades. A-G Jeff Landry says every 40 seconds a child goes missing in the U-S and when a child goes missing , time matters…
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Parents can use the kits to store their child’s fingerprints, a DNA sample, physical identification information and recent photos that can be given to law enforcement in abduction and runaway cases.

Because of low water levels on the Mississippi River, you can now see a ferry that sank in 1915 along the banks of the river in downtown Baton Rouge. State Archeologist Chip McGimsey says the ferry was partially visible in 1992 when the river was low but then it was full of mud.
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The ferry sank after a major overnight storm in 1915. McGimsey says archives indicate only a nightwatchman was on board at the time and he survived.