The state Department of Children and Family Services announces policy changes as a result of an overdose death of a two-year-old child. D-C-F-S admits they were contacted three times by hospital staff about substance abuse involving the child, but because of a variety of reasons they failed to have a case worker inspect the home. DCFS Secretary Marketa Garner Walters says that will never happen again…
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The supervisor overseeing Mitchell Robinson’s case has resigned, while the worker assigned to the case has been suspended.

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is now ranked among the nation’s top 100 public research universities. Last year the school invested over 181-million dollars in research and development, a 193-percent increase in funding over eight years. V.P. for Research & Innovation at ULL Dr. Ramesh Kolluru (ko-LOO-roo) says part of that research was pandemic related…
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The state Supreme Court rules incumbent Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins CAN run for re-election this fall. More from Kevin Gallagher…:.
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State Police say a 45-year-old woman fired a handgun at Lake Charles Police officers yesterday before she was shot in the lower torso from return fire. Sheri Carlson of Lake Charles suffered non-life threatening injuries and no officers were injured. Police were dispatched to a home on Hodges Street in reference to suspicious circumstances.