State traffic fatalities have decreased almost 30 percent from 2007 to 2013 according to the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission. But Executive Director Lt. Col. John LeBlanc says we still have a long way to go as impaired driving and not buckling up are still the leading factors in highway crashes…

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LeBlanc says it’s encouraging to see an overall decline in lives lost on our roadways.

The state Department of Children and Family Services has released a new child support most wanted poster. D-C-F-S Secretary Suzy Sonnier says the Most Wanted poster represents the worst offenders, but there are over 58-thousand non-custodial parents who owe more than one-point-five billion in unpaid child support…

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The poster lists 14 individuals, who owe anywhere between 11-thousand to nearly 80-thousand dollars in past-due child support.

A Lake Charles woman has been arrested after the child she was caring for was found wandering along a highway yesterday. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office says 23-year-old Jamie Jackson was babysitting the 4-year-old when she allegedly left the child alone while she brought her nephew to school and had coffee with her aunt. The child was found about a mile and a half from Jackson’s home on Highway 385. Jackson is charged with cruelty to a juvenile.

The Louisiana Lottery says tonight’s $317 million dollar Powerball jackpot is the 11th biggest in the game’s history. Michelle Southern reports…

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