A study examining the state’s film tax credit program finds that it created nearly 13-thousand jobs, but cost the state 171-million dollars last fiscal year. LSU Economist Dr. Loren Scott conducted the study for the state department of economic development…
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Which is why lawmakers it will addressed in the upcoming legislative session.

A contract has been awarded to build a new VA clinic in Lafayette. While Republican Congressman Charles Boustany – who got the legislative authorization to build new clinics in Lafayette and Lake Charles – says it’s great news for Lafayette, he says the VA is dragging its feet for Lake Charles construction…
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He says still no word from the V.A.
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A Franklin Parish woman was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to second degree cruelty to a juvenile after causing her 20-month-old daughter to fall out of her moving car last June. District Attorney Mack Lancaster says he’s satisfied with the sentence handed down to 24-year-old LaSasha Allen of Winnsboro…
CUT 3 (10) “appropriate sentence”

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 that puts us 12 percent below the national case rate…:
cut 12 (10) “at that point”
DeGraw says he credits the TB Control program for the numbers.