Louisiana Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Dejoie tells lawmakers the state’s unemployment trust fund is set to run out of money on September seventh. Dejoie says the state’s unemployment trust fund was rated as the 17th strongest in the nation before the pandemic…
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Dejoie says in order to keep paying unemployment claims, the state will have to borrow from the federal government and taxes will increase on businesses.

The state is reporting nearly 138-thousand coronavirus cases, almost 87-thousand cases have been confirmed since June 22nd. State health officer Doctor Jimmy Guidry says our hot summer did not slow the spread…
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The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry is reaching out to auto insurers who are not doing business in the state to let them know about recent changes to the state’s civil litigation rules in car crash cases…
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A 14-year-old girl from St. Mary Parish died over the weekend in a jet ski accident. Witnesses say the victim and a 15-year-old were operating separate jet skis in Belle River in Lower St. Martin Parish when the two jet skis collided. Hannah Landry of Franklin died at a local hospital, the other girl had minor injuries.