12:30 LRN Newscast

Public and charter students in grades three through 12 achieve the highest overall Mastery-plus rate on the LEAP test in history.

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State Police is investigating an officer-involved shooting that happened just before 4 AM in Mansfield on U-S Highway 171 near Highway 84. No other details have been announced.

The Caddo Parish Coroner’s Office has identified the man who died in a shootout with Shreveport police this past weekend. The coroner says 27-year-old Timothy Christian of Baton Rouge died Sunday morning about an hour and a half after he was shot by police

 

According to the non-profit blood services provider Vitalent (Vy-talent), Type O Blood supply has fallen to a two year-low, so they are urging all donors, especially those with type O to donate blood. Barley Juarez with Vitalant Blood Banking says they are especially in the need for O-negative…

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“O”-positive donations will also come in very handy, since Juarez says that can be given to anyone with any positive blood type, and 85-percent of all Americans have a positive blood type.

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