Louisiana employers are only slightly less optimistic about staffing for the first quarter of 2016 than they were the prior year. Michelle Southern reports…

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There were no jackpot winners in Saturday’s $255 million Powerball drawing. The jackpot for Wednesday night’s drawing climbs to whopping $300 million. That Powerball prize has a cash value of just over $184 million. The deadline to purchase tickets to get into the next drawing is Wednesday at 9PM.
It’s the final week of 2015, there are several things you might want to consider if you want to save money on your taxes. Baton Rouge CPA Bill Potter says you’ll want to maximize your itemized deductions before the new year and review your withholdings to make sure you’ve covered your tax liability. He says the IRS will let you file beginning January 19th…

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Potter recommends having all of your information ready to go so you can file as soon as possible.

State Climatologist Barry Keim lists El Nino as the state’s number one weather event in 2015. Number two is a squall line that moved across Louisiana on April 27th and number three is the state’s drought. He says the dry conditions began really settling in during the late summer and by late October, 86-percent of the state was in drought…

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He says he picked El Nino because of its duration and intensity.