Louisiana’s unemployment rate dropped slightly to six-point-four percent in June based on the latest labor statistics. Louisiana Workforce Commission executive director Curt Eysink says the data also shows the Bayou State adding 13,400 jobs over the last 12 months. He says the current job growth is across many different professions….
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Payrolls rose by 5,000 from May to June but Eysink admits the dropping price of oil is affecting energy sector jobs.

There are a group of parents in Tangipahoa Parish who believe the start of school should be pushed back, because it’s too hot. The concerned parents have started an online peition. But Tangipahoa School Superintendent Mark Kolwe (Cole-lay) says it’s too late to push the first day of school back…
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Kolwe says school is set to start in two weeks, because students need as much classroom instruction as possible for the state exams in March and April.
In an effort to re-establish the species, the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has released juvenile Alligator Snapping Turtles into the Calcasieu River Basin. Eric Gill has more…
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A former Iberia Parish Sheriff’s deputy faces a day in jail for punching a man who was under arrest in September 2013 after the Sugar Cane Festival in New Iberia. Twenty-nine-year-old Cody Laperouse must also perform 200 hours of community service, take anger management classes and pay a $2,000 fine.