A Legislative Auditor’s audit finds the Louisiana Workforce Commission paid out just over a million dollars in unemployment benefits to dead Louisianans since March of 2020. Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Cates says considering that’s just a tiny fraction of the 8.5 billion dollars they’ve paid out during this historic period, the department did a good job.
A side-by-side crash in Webster Parish claims the life of an 11-year-old boy and injuries to the 14-year-old girl who was driving the vehicle. State Trooper Jonathan Odom says the 14-year-old was driving the 2011 Polaris UTV northbound on Grant Circle when the tragic crash occurred.
The 2021 KIDS COUNT is out, and Louisiana ranks towards the bottom in its four main categories. Brooke Thorington has more from the President of the Annie E Casey Foundation.
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LSU pitcher Ma’Khail Hilliard’s father 53-year-old Keith Hilliard died over the weekend in a tubing accident on the Amite River. Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard says it appears Hilliard drown after leaving his tube to retrieve an item he had dropped in the water.