Our industrial boom shows no sign of letting up, and the Louisiana’s largest utility company is saying they need more generation of power to keep up…
CUT 1 (29) “reporting”

It’s another big company expansion annnounced today, as Elmer Chocolate will be making a $40 million dollar manufacturing expansion in Pontchatoula. This will place the total workforce number close to 200 employees, a dozen indirect jobs and about 130 contruction jobs.

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US Representative Steve Scalise admits to speaking to a white supremacist group while serving in the Louisiana legislature in 2002, but the Republican from Jefferson Parish says he detests any kind of hate group. U-L Lafayette Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says the controversy surrounding him will likely not end his political career…
CUT 6 (07) “quite awhile”
He will be serving as the House Majority Whip when Congress convenes in 2015.

An Alexandria couple who allegedly called in bomb threats at a Wal-Mart as part of a scheme to create a distraction in order to steal merchandise has been arrested…
CUT 11 (04) Q: ‘a theft”
That’s Pineville Police Chief Donald Weatherford who says 57-year-old Hardtner Greenhoward and 33-year-old LaShonda Anderson were charged with felony theft, two counts of terrorizing and criminal conspiracy.