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A lot of money is being paid out in our region. Chesapeake Energy Corporation will be making a total of more than $9-million in property tax payments to parishes benefitting from natural gas and oil development

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Looking for an organization to donate to before the end of the year? Caddo Council on Aging Executive Director Mary Alice Rountree suggests helping our area seniors. The organization is down about $100,000 from this time last year -- and that means a lot of elderly residents are being put on a waiting list for meals on wheels deliveries

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The Caddo Sheriff's Office has been using it since May...now, the Civil Inquiry Fingerprinting System is being rolled out statewide. Caddo Sheriff Steve Prator tells me that every sheriff's office in Louisiana is now equipped with a Live Scan fingerprinting workstation

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This may surprise you, but Louisiana exports more products to China than to any other country.

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The final numbers aren't in yet, but preliminary estimates indicate one of the State Fair of Louisiana's better years.  Fair General Manager Chris Giordano says it was the weather, more than the negative news, that kept some people away

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Several factors are taken into consideration when determining the "brokest" cities in America.  Among the factors; average credit score. 

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Lowe's is closing 20 stores in 15 states. Some of the stores have already shut down.  This will leave nearly 2,000 people without jobs. Here's the full list of stores on the chopping block:

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A nice honor for alumni and staff at LSU-Shreveport --eight of them have been selected as recipients of the "40 Under 40" award, given annually by the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce Young Professionals Initiative

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Next Tuesday, September 27th, is a big day for Northwestern State University in Natchitoches -- when it hosts its annual Career Fair. It'll run from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the Friedman Student Union. More than two dozen local, national and multinational companies, governmental agencies and universities will be on-hand to accept resumes, conduct job interviews and provide information

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