The Fairness in Women’s Sports Act is on its way to the Governor’s desk, but will Governor Edwards sign it this year after he vetoed it last year. Brooke Thorington has more…
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The Louisiana House has approved a bill that would prohibit the use of a handheld cell phone while driving. The vote was 55-to-38 in favor. It goes to the Senate, but there are just under two weeks to go in the legislative session.

The Louisiana Workforce Commission reports the state’s not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for April was a record low three-point-five percent as the state has added 200-thousand jobs over the last two years…
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Over the last year, the leisure and hospitality industry added 16 thousand jobs and the number of construction jobs is up by nearly seven thousand.

If you’ve been out in the garden or the backyard in South Louisiana, you may have seen a worm with a hammerhead. Hammerhead worms make themselves at home where they can find high temperatures and humidity. LSU AgCenter entomologist Nathan Lord says they are an unwelcome sight…
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The problem is that the hammerhead worm is a predator, and its prey is the earthworm.