State traffic fatalities have decreased almost 30 percent from 2007 to 2013 according to the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission…

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The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Lake Charles woman after the child she was caring for was found wandering along a highway. They say 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 state’s budget woes are causing difficulties in the search for a new president for Grambling State University. Possible job applicants are apparently worried about the state’s potential budget cuts to higher education. University of Louisiana System President Sandra Woodley says they received a letter from The Hollis Group, the search firm hired to recruit candidates, expressing the concerns…

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With the legislative session beginning in April, she says the original timeline to name a president will have to be pushed back.

There’s a new child support most wanted poster produced by the state Department of Children and Family Services. D-C-F-S Secretary Suzy Sonnier says this is just one of many tools they use to get deadbeat parents to pay up…

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She says they publish the poster, so the public can help them find these deadbeat parents.