Louisiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell for a second straight month in July, to its lowest level ever. Kevin Gallagher reports…:
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A federal lawsuit has been filed to prevent the transfer of two dozen youth inmates at the Bridge Center for Youth to the Louisiana State Pentitentary. Governor Edwards announced the move last month as a way to reduce the violence and escapes from the juvenile facility in Jefferson Parish. But civil rights attorneys say the state does not have a solid plan to keep adult and youth prisoners separate.

By a 4-3 decision, the state Supreme Court has ruled that Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins CAN run for re-election in November.Perkins’s candidacy was challenged by a resident whose main complaint was he listed the wrong address on election qualification papers. LSU-Shreveport political science professor Jeff Sadow says he and many others thought the High Court would go the opposite way…:
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Perkins says he’s estatic over the ruling now he has to fend off nine other challengers in the November eighth race.

Two people at Cypress Arrow Kennel and K9 Academy in Lena face animal cruelty charges, after viral videos surfaced showing them hitting the dogs. Rapides Sheriff’s Office Chief of staff Tommy Carnline says the case has drawn a lot of public scrutiny…:
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Business owner Tina Frey and her daughter Victoria Brimer were booked and released on bond.