An absolute heart breaking loss for the Saints in the NFC Championship game. New Orleans had a chance to win in regulation, but a missed pass interference call gave the Rams a chance and they took advantage of it and won 26-23 in overtime. Coach Sean Payton says the league office told him afterwards, the refs should have called pass interference and targeting on Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman towards the end of regulation
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Here’s what the officials told Robey-Coleman after the play…
cut 30 (15) “…in the air”
But the ball was not tipped and it goes down as one of the biggest blown calls in NFL history.
The state workforce commission says employment has increased by nearly 22-thousand jobs from December 2017, marking the 15th straight month for over-the-year increase. Workforce commission chief economist Ali Bustamante says even the Lafayette market, which has seen oil and gas job losses over the last decade, increased its workforce by 22-hundred jobs from December…
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But Houma saw a decline in 700 jobs over the last year.

If you vist the State Capitol over the next year, you can walk across the street and see the hearse that brought Martin Luther King Junior to his final resting place. CEO of Raising Cane’s, Todd Graves, purchased the 1966 Cadillac and has loaned it to the Capitol Park Museum. Graves says the hearse is a sobering reminder of what King did to change the world…
cut 9 (09) “….our country”
The exhibit will also feature many pieces and photos from King’s era.