26-thousand jobs have been added by private employers over the year based on February employment numbers from the Louisiana Workforce Commission. The commission’s executive director Curt Eysink credits the job growth to a growing chemical industry in Louisiana…

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Eysink says this type of growth with the state’s labor force should continue for the next ten years.

Traps will be put out by the state Department of Agriculture and Forestry to track the invasive asian bug called the Emerald Ash Borer. Commissioner Mike Strain says they want to keep this insect from attacking the thousands of Ash trees in the Atchafalaya Basin, the Mississippi River delta and urban areas as well. He says the traps are large, purple sticky boxes that hang from trees…

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The beetle was discovered recently in Webster Parish and it kills ash trees.

State Police say a single vehicle crash in Franklin Parish has claimed the life of a Delhi woman. Authorities say, for unknown reasons, 52-year-old Teresa Wrather traveled off the roadway, struck a culvert, and her vehicle began to overturn. Wrather, who was unrestrained, was partially ejected. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The investigation is ongoing.

An 8th grade student from Buckeye High School in Deville has started an online petition to change the uniform policy in Rapides Parish. Jeff Palermo reports…:

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