The average ACT score in Louisiana has dropped for a fifth consecutive year. State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley says the Class of 2022′s composite score was 18.1, down from 18.4….
cut 10 (07) “…national trend”
The national average ACT composite score fell a half a point to 19.8, the lowest since 1991.

Third Judicial District Attorney John Belton announced he’ll begin presenting evidence to a grand jury next month to see if criminal charges are warranted against the State Troopers involved in the 2019 fatal arrest of Ronald Greene. Legal analyst Franz Borghardt says there are three scenarios for going to a grand jury…
cut 15 (13) “….do your dirty work”
He says Belton is taking Option 1; a certain indictment.

A photo of New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell traveling first class to Amsterdam last week has emerged after she’s already been ordered to repay the city $30-thousand for upgrading her travel experience to France this past summer. President of the New Orleans Metropolitan Crime Commission Rafael Goyenche says they asked the city about the price of the Amsterdam ticket and never got a response, so they researched ticket prices.
Cut 6 (10) “…over $10,800.”
Goyeneche says according to city policy if an employee travels internationally on a flight for more than ten hours the official is allowed to purchase a business class ticket for no more than 110-percent of the economy price ticket.

Social security recipients will receive nearly a nine-percent increase int heir benefits in 2023 to help retirees who are dealign with the highest inflation rates in decades. Director of Advocacy at Louisiana AARP, Andrew Muhl, says this is the largest rate hike since 1981…
cut 4 (09) “…their income”
Muhl says the average retiree Louisiana collects about 14-hundred dollars a month in social security, this cost of liviing adjustment will recipients an extra 15-hundred dollars a year