There’s a new study conducted by LSU economist Dr. Loren Scott that shows the film tax credit program created nearly 13-thousand jobs, but cost Louisiana 171-million dollars last fiscal year. Scott says even with those jobs, that doesn’t mean the jobs produced actually benefited Louisiana…
CUT 11 (09) Q: “he spent”
That tax credit will no doubt get a lot of discussion in the upcoming session.

A Winsboro woman has been sentenced go to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to second degree cruelty to a juvenile. Twenty-four year-old LaSasha Alleen placed her daughter in an unrestrained position and opened the car door while rounding a curve, allowing her daughter to fall out. Franklin Parish District Attorney Mack Lancaster says Allen showed no remorse…
CUT 5 (05) Q: ‘somewhat silently’
He said he was satified with the sentenced.
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There’s some good Louisiana health news, as the Department of Health and Hospitals says Louisiana has cut the rate of Tuberculosis cases by more than half from 2010 to 2014. DHH TB Control Program Director Charles DeGraw says they have also reduced the percentage of TB cases with HIV infection from 10% in 2010 to 4 percent in 2014…:
CUT 14 (10) Q: “who have Tuberculosis.”

An Iowa (eye-a-way) woman has died in an overnight single vehicle in Lake Charles that State Police say was caused by a drunk driver. The unrestrained passenger – 44 year-old Molly Frank – was ejected when the driver failed to negotiate a curve on Highway 3256, then hit a tree. Thirty-four year-old Randall Keith Laird II of Lake Charles was charged with vehicular homicide and DWI.