Big news from Baton Rouge-based Turner Industries which announced it’s building a state of the nuclear fabrication facilities in New Iberia and Port Allen. Turner is one of the nation’s largest industrial contractors, with more than 93-hundred employees and these new facilities will create a thousand new jobs. Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Susan Bourgeois says Turner officials believe Louisiana should be at the center of the next wave of nuclear innovation.
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Turner Industries was founded in Baton Rouge in 1961 and has six offices statewide.
A man was fatally shot last night in New Orleans Mid-City just a block from Jesuit High School. NOPD says they got the call just before eight and responded to the 500 block of South Hennessey Street. EMS also responded but the man was pronounced dead at the scene. So far there’s been no word on possible motive or suspect.
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Louisiana Tech is closing the chapter on its time in the Conference USA and turning the page to a new era in the Sun Belt. Andre Champagne has more.
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Construction officially gets underway in Lake Charles this afternoon on the new I-10 Calcasieu River Bridge. Calcasieu Parish Police Jury President Brian Abshire says the new bridge will be a vast improvement over the one that it will be replacing.