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Over $1 million stolen from Unemployment Funds; Thibodaux resident arrested in connection July 20, 2021 Since the public health emergency was declared, Louisiana has experienced massive unemployment with hundreds of businesses forced into closure and their employees out of work. Unfortunately, fraudsters seized upon the situation; and the Unemployment Trust Fund was an easy target.   Many press reports have highlighted the more than $400 million in Louisiana unemployment benefits being dispersed to individuals who did not qualify to receive them, the $6.2 million in benefits that went to pri...

Evacuations Lifted In Louisiana Dam Failure The Weather Channel 3 hrs ago Jan Wesner Childs Hundreds of people ordered to evacuate from a rural community in southern Louisiana after a flood barrier known as an AquaDam failed and water began pouring over a roadway have been allowed to return home. https://www.facebook.com/IbervilleParishCouncil/posts/1565033670523431 "The mandatory evacuation order that was in place for the Bayou Sorrel and Bayou Pigeon area has been lifted," the Iberville Parish Council announced in a Facebook post at about 6 p.m. CDT Friday. "Stay STRONG Ib...

Evacuations Ordered for Hundreds After Temporary Dam Fails in Southern Louisiana The Weather Channel 8 hrs ago Jan Wesner Childs Hundreds of people have been ordered to evacuate from a rural community in southern Louisiana after a flood barrier known as an AquaDam failed and water began pouring over a roadway. Evacuations were ordered at about 10 a.m. CDT Friday for 300 to 350 homes in an area known as Bayou Pigeon, about 34 miles southwest of Baton Rouge in Iberville Parish. “Water is coming and if we don’t stop it very quickly it will flood a lot of houses that histori...

Convincing lawmakers to decriminalize marijuana won’t be easy Representative who authored bill proposing to legalize marijuana says most opposition is coming from law enforcement By Chris Rosato | May 10, 2021 at 5:19 PM CDT - Updated May 12 at 2:14 PM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The debate of a proposed bill aiming to decriminalize marijuana and pave the way for regulation of the drug for recreational use in Louisiana has been pushed back for a week. HB 699 was supposed to be debated on the House floor of the Louisiana State Capitol on Monday, May 10. Instead, it will now be debated ...

Another delay in vote to legalize marijuana in Louisiana, bill to be taken up Wednesday 2 days 2 hours 20 minutes ago Monday, May 10 2021 May 10, 2021 May 10, 2021 10:36 PM May 10, 2021 in News Source: WBRZ Share: BATON ROUGE - As 67 percent of the state supports the recreational use of marijuana, lawmakers in the house for a second time, won't vote on a bill to decriminalize it. "So we had some people absent that we needed to vote, we are also working on some amendments to bring more people on board,” said Representative Richard Nelson. Representative Nelson is the author of the legislatio...