Small business optimism dipped in June, according to the National Federation for Independent Business. State director Dawn Starns says they saw increased optimism at the beginning of the year entering the new administration, but that has since dwindled due to gridlock in Congress and uncertainty surrounding the federal healthcare bill…:
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The Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission has handed down a fine of 545-thousand dollars against Elio Motors, which has promised to build a three-wheel car at the former GM plant in Shreveport, but those plans have been delayed since 2013, because a lack of funding. Commission spokesperson Keith Marcott told KEEL in Shreveport that Elio has to follow the same rules as everyone else….
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The girlfriend of the man who was shot and killed by an Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s deputy has hired a lawyer who disputes information released by State Police on the incident. Authorities say 27-year-old Dejuan Guillory was shot in a struggle with the deputy, and that the girlfriend, 21-year-old Dequince Brown, attacked the cop. But Brown’s lawyer, Joe Long, said his client was trying to keep the deputy from killing her boyfriend:
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Long made the comments in an interview with PenPoint News.

Louisiana drivers are jerks on the road according to a driving awareness campaign that promotes courteous driving. Speeding up to prevent someone from passing us and failing to use our turn signals puts us 4th worst in the US. Kars4Kids spokesman Ari Finkelstein
Cut 8 (09) “stressful roads”