Someone in Eunice bought a Powerball ticket last night that’s worth 191 million dollars. Emelie Gunn has more…
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The 111th State Fair of Louisiana begins a 14-day run in Shreveport today, with shows, rides and livestock. Jeff Palermo has a preview…
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A 191 million dollar Powerball jackpot ticket was sold last night at a gas station in Eunice. Louisiana Lottery Spokesperson Kim Chopin says the last time the Bayou State saw a Powerball jackpot winner was in May of 2013. She says the previous Powerball jackpot record was 97-million dollars in 2008.
Chopin says if the winner decides to take the cash value of the jackpot, they will receive 119-million dollars. She says the lucky winner has 180 days from the drawing to claim their prize, but they should take their time before coming forward.
Chopin says the winning ticket was sold at Brownie’s on West Maple Ave. She says the Louisiana Lottery gives the store a bonus for selling jackpot winning tickets.
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The 111th State Fair of Louisiana starts a 14-day run in Shreveport today with shows, rides and livestock. Fair president and general manager Chris Giordano says there’s also a lot of food vendors, with a few putting a special focus on a particular fan favorite…
A special tribute band will perform this weekend during their Southern Soul series. Giordano says some musical greats will be impersonated by Bobby Miller Sunday…
The fair has expanded their entertainment venue this year. Giordano says the fair not only has the state’s largest horse and livestock shows, they are adding exotic animals for entertainment…
All entertainment is included in the price of gate admission for ten-dollars. Carnival ride armbands are sold separately at 30-dollars. The fair will be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
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Authorities say the man who murdered a woman whose body was found in Pineville last week, is also the person that allegedly killed two people, who were burned in a ditch on Old Boyce Highway that same morning. Rapides Sheriff William Hilton says Matthew Sonnier now faces three counts of first-degree murder…
The bodies in the ditch have been identified as Kendrick Horn and Jeremy Norris, both men were in Alexandria. Hilton says they also arrested Sonnier’s sister, Ebony Sonnier and she’s facing charges that could result in the death penalty for the murder of the two men found in the burned out ditch…
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Pineville Police have upgraded the murder charge of Matthew Sonnier to first-degree murder and his sister is also facing the same charge for the stabbing death of Latish White. Pineville Police Chief Don Weatherford…
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Good news for Louisiana’s tourism industry. Nearly 25 percent of the new jobs in the state were related to tourism. Over six-thousand new travel related jobs were created in the last 12 months, based on data from the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics. Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser says not only is the industry creating jobs, but it’s bringing in a large portion of the state’s tax revenue…
Nungesser says this is one industry that has huge growth potential in all corners of Louisiana…
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Nungesser says tourism is ripe for employee growth and promotion within already established business. He has talked with several who have moved up the chain…
The expanding tourism market has helped to decrease the state’s unemployment rate to 5-point-1-percent in September, a full percent lower from the same month in 2016.