14:30 Newscast September 16th, 2014

A family is grieving today after a three year old little boy found a loaded gun in his house and shot and killed himself with it on accident. Tallulah Police Department spokeswoman Yvonne Lewis says the mom wasn’t home at the time but she was only gone for minutes.
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She says investigators did a test on the child’s hand to determine he did actually shoot himself.

The state Board of Regents releases a report showing there is no statewide policy in place for handling such allegations. New Orleans lawmaker JP Morrell says Louisiana must establish a benchmark that all colleges must meet when it comes to the way sexual assault claims are handled…:
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Public school teachers continue to retire at a higher number compared to what seen just only a few years ago. Jeff Palermo has the story…:
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Today a district judge threw out the law that would give State Police Col Mike Edmonson and another trooper a major retirement boost. The measure was added the last legislative session at the last minute and the judge said today lawmakers didn’t follow proper procedure with this and the pension change is “unconstitutional on its face.”