A new PAR report shows around 60% of Louisiana high school seniors are applying for college financial aid this year, a 10% drop from last year. Steven Procopio with PAR expects completed FAFSA applications in Louisiana will decline further since BESE repealed a policy that made FAFSA completion a high school graduation requirement. Procopio says he hopes this year’s decline shows lawmakers that students need help getting financial aid.
For more information on the FAFSA, you can visit the Federal Student Aid Office’s website at studentaid.gov.
The LSU-USC game is a hot ticket on the secondary ticket market. Stubhub spokesperson Joseph Bocanegra (Bo-cuh-nay-gruh)….
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Boanegra says residents from Louisiana are buying more tickets than those from southern California.
Holiday weekends are times for beefed-up drunk driving enforcement — this weekend is no exception. Andrew Greenstein has more.
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South Louisiana is in for some rain this weekend. Chanele Stigger, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, says given the weather we’ve had recently, the rain is something that we can all use.
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The National Hurricane Center says this weather has about a 20-percent chance of development over the next seven days.