A U.S. Postal Service employee is under arrest in North Louisiana for stealing marijuana from packages he was supposed to deliver. Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office Spokesman Bobby Herring says 31 year-old Russell Leon Ellis would allegedly poke holes in packages from the states that have legalized marijuana…

CUT 8 (04) Q: “smell it”

And if it passed the sniff test, Ellis would allegedly take the packages and its contents.

According to the latest census data, the Louisiana payscale by gender gap is still very wide. In fact it leads the nation with men making an average of 33 percent more than women. Tulane Business Professor Mark Rosa says, culturally, many women with high degrees are choosing to stay home and raise their family, which affects the numbers…

CUT 14 (08) Shouldered with that”

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There’s a report out today from the Reason Foundation from Los Angeles that show Louisiana has fallen 16 spots since a 2011 report in national state ratings for highway conditions. The author of the study, David Hartgen, says those numbers are based on more than just potholes…

CUT 10 (11) Q: ‘national average’
In Jonesville, the Catahoula Parish Sheriff’s Office is reporting the arrest of seven adults on several charges; all of them in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of one teenage victim. Several of those arreste have already confessed, and Sheriff James Kelly says he expects more arrests to be made.