Just over 85-hundred high school students achieved college credit by passing Advancement Placement exams in 2016. State education superintendent John White says that’s an 11-percent increase over last year…
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White says Livingston, St. Bernard and Terrebonne have improved the most in the last four years when it comes to the number of students achieving college credit through A-P exams.

Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne says there’s a good chance the state will end up with a deficit for the fiscal year that ended on June 30th. Dardenne says they are still waiting for all of the numbers to come in, so it’s hard to say how much that deficit will be. But he says a member of the Revenue Estimating Conference has an idea…
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The deficit will be addressed by lawmakers in 2017.

Jury selection is underway in Lake Charles for a case that’s over 50 years old. Mary Horton Vail drowned in the Calcasieu River in 1962 and prosecutors believe they have enough evidence to convict Mississippi native and her former husband, Felix Vail, with her death. Legal analyst Tim Meche says it’s cases like this that make him wish it was legal to broadcast court proceedings on TV in Louisiana….
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Felix Vail has said the charges against him are fabricated.

A low pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida has the potential to bring heavy rains to southeast Louisiana later this week. Michael Hill with the National Weather Service in Slidell says the heavy rains should begin on Wednesday and flash flooding is possible…
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A heat advisory for north Louisiana was cancelled earlier today as a result of morning cloud cover and rainfall last night.