Governor Bobby Jindal has raised about $579,000 in his first week as a Republican presidential candidate…
CUT 1 (30) “I’m Eric Gill”

It’s the first expansion for Zatarain’s in almost 50 years, and it’s a big one in Gretna, with almost 200 employees on hand to celebrate the completion of construction that has tripled the size of the facility. The 80 thousand square foot growth will have 10 new manufacturing lines by the end of next year.
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State Police announce several people arrested for filing fraudulent insurance claims and keeping the money they received. Sgt. James Anderson says the Kemper Home Service Group contacted them concerned that some employees in the Lake Charles area were filing false claims…
CUT 3 (07) “of that investigation”
About 55 thousand dollars in fraudulant claims were filed.

The average price for gasoline in Louisiana is down about a nickel from last month, at $2.53 a gallon. AAA fuel analyst Don Redman says that’s not the case along the West Coast, where they are seeing a 20 cent average increase, because some market and refinery issues. But Louisiana should not see this effect…
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He says there’s been about a 10 dollar per barrel decrease in the price of oil – from roughly 60 to about 50 dollars a barrel.