The state’s first human cases of West Nile Virus of the year have been reported by the Department of Health. While the West Nile season may be off to a later start than usual, Assistant State Health Officer Dr. Joseph Kanter says this time last year, there were 53 cases, but he is hesitant to call it an optimistic trend.
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Five of the nine cases are the more serious form of West Nile and they are from south Louisiana.

Panic spread across the LSU campus yesterday afternoon when the school sent out an alert about a possible armed intruder in Coates Hall. State Climatologist Barry Keim was on campus when the alert was sent and said people in his building near Coates Hall did not take the situation lightly…
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Just before 5 PM, another alert was sent, giving the all-clear and LSU officials believe the suspected armed intruder was an off-duty officer with a gun on his belt.

Louisiana soybean farmers are facing a second straight harvest where it could be difficult to sell their crop, because of the U-S-China trade war. Kyle McCann with the Louisiana Farm Bureau says many farmers would be out of business by now if not for the Market Facilitation payments that cover an estimated 80 percent of lost profits, but he says it’s a temporary fix
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Another round of MFP payments is reportedly on the way to embattled farmers.

The state department of education says a record number of Louisiana high school students achieved college credit on College Level Examination Program exams. Assistant Superintendent of Education Ken Bradford…
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The number of Louisiana students earning college credit increased 51-percent over last year.