Louisiana has made strides in reducing the state’s chronic absenteeism rate among public school students. Chronic absenteeism rose following the COVID pandemic to a high of nearly 25-percent for the 2023-24 school year; but last year, the rate dropped two-percent. Misty Davis, the executive director of attendance strategies at the department of education, says a task force was formed to address absences.
LSU head football coach Brian Kelly says starting quarterback Garrett Nussmeier has been dealing with a torso injury since fall camp….
Cut 16 (13) “…the football”
The Tigers will host Southeastern Louisiana on Saturday night.
McNeese State is celebrating its largest enrollment increase in 22 years as 65-hundred students are enrolled for the fall semester that’s up from 62-hundred in 2024. President Wade Rousse credits the increase in enrollment to a robust advertising and marketing campaign…
Cut 6 (11) “…a positive impact”
Rousse says 78-percent of McNeese’s enrollment comes from the five-parish area that the school has traditionally focused on.
Authorities continue to investigate a murder-suicide in Bossier City that also saw two officers get shot. Bossier City P-D Sergeant Shawn Poudrier (Poo-dree-ur) says the officers injures are not life threatening, but a man shot himself after fatally shooting a woman in a domestic violence incident. Poudrier says once SWAT officers entered the home, they found a disturbing scene…
Cut 15 (10) “…another room”
The man is in critical condition.