The Louisiana Workforce Commission has launched a new online mobile tool which calculates someone’s expenses and connects them with a career. Michelle Southern reports…

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A New Orleans educator is under arrest after allegedly sending pornographic images to students. New Orleans Police say 32-year-old Da’Mon Williams, a music teacher at Sophie B. Wright Charter School, is accused of sending explicit photos to four students. Williams faces two counts of prohibited sexual conduct between an educator and student and two counts of indecent behaviour with a juvenile. School officials say Williams has been suspended.

According to a new national survey, for the first time more teens are smoking e-cigarettes than tobacco cigarettes. DHH Health Promotions Director Caroline Brazeel says it’s important that the state does what it can to protect the health of the youth in Louisiana. She says the Louisiana Legislature took a critical first step in trying to combat this growing trend…

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The annual University of Michigan “Monitoring the Future” report surveyed over 40,000 8th, 10th, and 12th graders.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has cited a Mississippi man for allegedly drowning a deer in the Mississippi River in Concordia Parish. Spokesman Adam Einck says 40-year-old David Hayes of Natchez, Mississippi, admitted to drowning the buck in the river on the Louisiana side. Einck says they don’t see many cases where a person is cited for drowning deer…

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Hayes faces several hundreds of dollars in fines and up to 90 days in jail, if convicted.