With less than a month until the November 4th election, Senator Mary Landrieu is shaking up her campaign staff. Eric Gill has more…

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In just the first 7 weeks of operation the Louisiana Job Connection website has attracted over 13 thousand job seekers. The State Department for Economic Development reports that more than 90 percent of those who posted their profile on louisiana-job-connection-dot-com are from Louisiana.

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A DHH worker who gambled away more than a million dollars in stolen funds by misappropriating Medicaid over payments, pleased guilty in court today. State Inspector General Stephen Street says when 47 year-old Deborah Loper was arrested in 2013, all the money was gone…:

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In a plea agreement she will spend 5 years in jail, and have to pay the state back all the money.

The field of Republicans hoping to fill the 6th Congressional District seat has narrowed by one. Attorney Cassie Felder has dropped out; mainly based on the inability to raise enough money to do the advertising she would need to win …

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And that support is for State Senator Dan Claitor.