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More bad news today for the oil industry. The International Energy Agency predicted oil prices will not rebound until next year. Oil prices have plummeted 70-percent since 2014, leading to layoffs. Executive director of the LSU Center for Energy Studies, David Dismukes, says oil companies have done what they can to avoid further job cuts…
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Dismukes says oil companies may have to look at asset sales to generate cash.

At the state Capitol, Republican State Treasurer John Kennedy once again pushed the executive branch to take steps to reduce the number of state contracts as a way to save money….
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Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne says an examination of state contracts is underway.

Another group has come forward expressing their concerns with a video put together by St. Landry Parish Sheriff Captain Clay Higgins that’s received millions of views. In the video, Captain Higgins tells fugivities that belong the Gremlins Gang that law enforcement is coming after them. But National Action Now President, Reverend Raymond Brown, says the video is racially tainted…
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St. Landry Sheriff Bobby Guidroz says they’ve asked Captain Higgins to tone his message down.

Lafayette Police arrest a New Iberia man after movie goers say he was acting very strange inside a movie theater. Corporal Paul Mouton says 35-year-old Christopher Harmason was pacing down the aisle and muttering to himself…
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Harmason was issued a summons for distrubing the peace.