A new jobs report shows the state added nearly eight-thousand to its workforce in March. Louisiana Workforce Commission spokesperson Aaron Caffarel says construction employment posted its largest over-the-month increase since 2004…
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Despite the increase in jobs, the state’s unemployment rate also grew to six-point-one percent.

The House approved a bill to allow lawmakers to have a say in whether recipients of food stamps should be required to work to receive federal assistance. But opponents like Bogalusa Representative Malinda White says Louisiana is losing jobs left and right in the oil industry, and there’s a huge need for this assistance
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Despite White’s objections, the legislation heads to the Senate.

The band director at Westgate High School in New Iberia has been arrested, after he was found hiding in a 16-year-old girl’s closet. Halen Doughty has more…
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Former coaches, teammates and fans are at the Saints training facility in Metairie this afternoon, where a public visitation is taking place for Will Smith. The former Saints defensive end was fatally shot last weekend in what police call a road rage incident.