CenturyLink announced today its keeping its corporate head quarters in Monroe through 2025. Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson says Centurlink is receiving an incentive package from the state and local universities will receive two-million dollars in grant funding to help provide the STEM workers needed…
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CenturyLink employs over 22-hundred workers in the state.

The state needs new voting machines, but Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin says new equipment will not be available by the time the October and November elections roll around. Ardoin says they will rent voting machines for early voting and use spare parts to make sure the old voting booths work properly on election day…
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Ardoin says they will re-do the process of purchasing new voting machines later this year.

A fatal wreck in 2017 that killed a four-year-old girl is inspiring a Bossier City legislator to change state law law so that even drug tests are required for drivers involved in auto and boating accidents that result in serious injury. The current law only mandates toxicology tests in fatal wrecks. Representative Raymond Crews.
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The former president of the LaRose-Cut Off Baseball League has been arrested on allegations he stole thousands of dollars from the youth baseball league. LaFourche Sheriff’s office Major Brennan Matherne says 40-year-old Blaine Curole could not account for where the money went…
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Matherne says Curole opened a bank account for the league and he was the only person who had access.