2:30 LRN Newscast Dec 25

The unbeaten Tigers are spending Christmas in Atlanta getting ready to play Oklahoma in the program’s first semifinal playoff game. Jeff Palermo the story…

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St. Tammany Parish Sheriffs are reporting a disturbing incident in Slidell yesterday in which a 53-year-old man engaged in a domestic dispute that ended in his suicide. Authorities say the man punched his wife in the face, then turned around and shot his 15-year-old son in the arm before retreating to the garage and shooting himself.

Alexandria-based RoyOMartin announces plans to invest 25-million dollars into its oriented strand board site in Oakdale and its plywood manufacturing site in Chopin. Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain says this is great news coming from one of Louisiana’s biggest employers

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A TopCashback.com survey shows only 17 percent of Americans usually get a holiday bonus, and just over half never receive holiday bonuses.  TopCashback spokesperson Rebecca Gramuglia says when asked if they were more likely to receive a pay raise or a bonus, Gramuglia says it’s far more common to see the bonus, if you see anything at all.

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The survey says half of respondents that do receive a bonus will spend it on Christmas gifts.