Governor John Bel Edwards says there are six-thousand federal workers impacted by the partial federal government shutdown. He sympathizes with the ones who are having a hard time paying the bills as the shutdown reaches 27 days…
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Edwards says 333 federal workers in Louisiana have applied for unemployment benefits.

Two-thousand Louisiana high school students are in Washington D-C for tomorrow’s National March for Life Rally. These young people want the U-S Supreme court to reverse Roe vs Wade. State Representative Katrina Jackson, a democrat from Monroe, is in the nation’s capital with them…
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Jackson will speak at the national rally tomorrow.

Fans wishing to get inside The Superdome for the NFC championship game will have to fork over several hundred dollars according to StubHub. Head of Partnerships for the NFL at StubHub Akxhay Khanna (AWK-shea CON-uh) says even nosebleed tickets will cost you some…
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Ticket scammers are also looking to make a buck and Attorney General Jeff Landry says if a ticket deal seems too good to be true it is…
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Landry says avoid sites like Craigslist, because many tickets on that site are not verified.

The city of Zachary in East Baton Rouge parish has received three economic development hits in the last week which will result in the loss of hundreds of jobs. Thompson Pipe Group says its closing its manufacturing plant later this year which will affect 120 workers. Georgia-Pacific last week announced they were laying off 650 workers at their Port Hudson paper mill and BASF is shutting down a chemical plant that employs 54.