The Louisiana Workforce Commission has set up a system to report job applicants who fail to show up for job interviews or refuse job offers. LWC Secretary Susana Schowen says this initiative will help identify unemployment recipients who abuse the system..
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Schowen says employers can report a job applicant who no-shows an interview or refuses an offer by filling out a couple of online forms on the L-W-C website.

Governor Jeff Landry will hold a bill signing ceremony for the legislation approved in the crime special session today. One of the bills allows for permitless concealed carry. New Orleans Representative Mandie Landry says some firearm free zones needs to be extended
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Congressman Garret Graves tells WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge that he plans to run for re-election in the district he currently serves, the sixth district. The new Congressional map approved by lawmakers in January radically changes his district, stretching it from Baton Rouge to Shreveport, but Graves says he’s confident the courts will reject that map

Some say life begins at 50. For St. John Parish Police Juror, Dixie Ramirez, her political life began at 90. Colleen Crain has the story…
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