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Bright Coop Co., based in Nacogdoches, is undergoing a $2 million expansion in its Viking Trailers division. Vice president Clem Russell says the company is in need of welders and metal fabricators.

Commentator Gary Joiner notes this week marks the sesquicentennial of the Great Battle of Shiloh fought in southern Tennessee. It changed America forever.

An agency that advocates for people with disabilities in Louisiana has requested a face-to-face meeting with Department of Health and Hospitals to discuss alleged instances of neglect at 16 group homes across the state. The New Orleans-based Advocacy Center released a report last month that documented unsafe and unsanitary conditions at homes for developmentally disabled people.

Commentator Archie McDonald ponders what he'd do if he won the lottery.

The Louisiana Association for the Blind is building a $3.2 million printing press facility that will create at least 15 jobs for people who are legally blind.