LSU economist Doctor Loren Scott’s annual employment outlook is out and it shows more job losses for the Lafayette and Houma-Thibodaux areas, but solid employment opportunities in Baton Rouge and Lake Charles because of an industrial boom…
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Scott says job growth will remain flat in Shreveport, Monroe, Alexandria and New Orleans.

A bunker storing aging M-6 explosive propellant exploded this morning at Camp Minden in Webster Parish causing a bright light to appear in the sky. Minden Representative Gene Reynolds says it’s not a surprise the explosive material went off….
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No one was injured in the blast.

The body cam video has been released of the police shooting that left a 6-year-old autistic boy dead in Marksville last November. The graphic video shows deputy city marshal Derrick Stafford firing into a vehicle, where Jeremy Mardis was fatally struck. Legal analyst Tim Meche…
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Prosecutors showed the tape in court yesterday to show that Stafford had a history of using excessive force.

A Bossier Parish school board committee has told MTV they can film three of their students. The cable channel wants to follow the three students, because they ahve chosen to practice abstinence. But board member Dennis Bamburg says the TV industry and schools don’t mix…
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