The House Education Committee is scheduled to debate legislation today that would remove the controversial Common Core education standards from public schools and replace it with one developed by Louisiana residents. But Barry Erwin, president of the Council for a Better Louisiana, says ditching Common Core for another education curriculum is a wrong move for the state…

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Alexandria Representative Lance Harris authored the bill and says it’s time to come up with a better assessment.

A new statewide poll by Southern Media and Opinion Research shows Republican Senator David Vitter leading with 38-percent of the vote with fellow Republicans Jay Dardenne and Scott Angelle receiving 17 and 5-percent respectively. Pollster Bernie Pinsonat says the poll also shows there’s very few white voters who are undecided, which is bad news for Vitter’s opponents…

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Democrat John Bel Edwards came in second place with 25-percent.

The Attorney General’s office says two former St. John the Baptist Parish Water Works employees were convicted Tuesday for covering up their failure to properly collect water samples from testing sites. The Department of Health and Hospitals later found a brain eating amoeba at those sites. Kurt Wall directs the criminal division at the AG’s office…

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Wall says 55-year-old Kevin Branch of LaPlace and 43-year-old Danielle Roussel of Paulina, both pleaded guilty to false swearing.

LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport researchers are working on a new drug that could possibly help cure addiction. Dr. Nick Goeders says EMB-001 blocks the body’s stress responders which interferes with triggers that lead to cravings…

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Goeders says many people enter treatment centers and do fine while they are there, but when they come back to their old lives and encounter triggers that lead to cravings, they begin using again.