A study examining the state’s film tax credit program finds that it created nearly 13-hundred jobs in Louisiana, but cost the state 171-million dollars last fiscal year. LSU Economist Loren Scott conducted the study for the state department of economic development and he says it shows that the film tax credit program costs more than it brings in…:
CUT 9 (10) “film industry”
In the upcoming session lawmakers are expected to look at several bills which seek to reform the film tax credit program.

A Franklin Parish woman was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to second degree cruelty to a juvenile after her 20-month-old daughter fell out of her moving car last June. Authorities say 24-year-old LaSasha Allen placed her daughter in an unrestrained position and opened the car door while rounding a curve, allowing her daughter to fall out. The child received multiple injuries, including a skull fracture.

Republican Congressman Charles Boustany announces that a contract has been awarded to build a new VA clinic in Lafayette. Last year, Boustany passed legislation authorizing the construction of new clinics in Lafayette and Lake Charles. Boustany says this is a great day for Lafayette veterans…:
CUT 6 (11) “long overdue”
The Lafayette clinic will be built on Ambassador Caffery Parkway and is expected to be completed 18 months after construction begins.

The Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office says a Bossier City man is accused of stealing from his employer and selling the items on eBay. They say 60-year-old Michael Thompson returned about $2300 worth of stolen constrution items to his company but said everything else had been sold on the online aucotion site. He is charged with theft.