There is more bad news when it comes to job loss in the oil and gas sector. LSU economist Loren Scott says the low gas prices we’ve seen since August of 2014 have hurt the industry. He says major companies are cutting back their drilling budget dramatically.
Scott says the state is losing jobs at the rate of about 21-thousand a year.
A report by the National Center for Health Statistics finds the suicide rate in the US has increased by 24% from 1999 to 2014. LSU Health New Orleans Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Dr. Michelle Moore says there isn’t a specific reason why the number has gone up….
A campaign begins today in Louisiana that aims to get more pickup truck drivers to wear their seat belts. Don Molino has more…
Attorney General Jeff Landry has announced that two Northwest Louisiana men have been arrested on child pornography charges. 54-year-old James Lucius of Bossier City is charged with 500 counts of possession of child pornography involving juveniles under age 13. 24-year-old Stephen Harris of Shreveport is facing one possession charge for child pornography.