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A prayer and candlelight vigil remembered Macyi Breaux, a LSUE student who was one of 11 people shot during a one minute rampage at the Grand 16 Theatre in Lafayette, at the LSUE Catholic Student Center Tuesday evening.

With the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba, port traffic in Louisiana as well as the exporting of the state’s rice, wheat and poultry commodities is expected to increase, according to Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry commissioner Mike Strain.

An increase in the unemployment rate is being blamed on a growth of the labor force in Louisiana, according data released Tuesday by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Joseph Nelson, campus minister at LSU Eunice Catholic Student Center, has announced there will a prayer vigil for Mayci Breaux, a victim of a shooting at a Lafayette movie theater. Breaux of Franklin, 21, was a first-year student at LSU Eunice.

The Experience Louisiana Festival scheduled Oct. 17 to 18 on the LSUE campus is gaining participants and attention as planning continues, Dwight Jodon, a festival organizer said.