More good news regarding public education as Louisiana students had a record-breaking year for LEAP scores. BESE says students this year earned the highest statewide Mastery or Advanced Mastery rate ever recorded on the test.

The lawyer representing Attorney General Liz Murrill calls the 16-count Orleans Parish grand jury indictment against her client a political witch hunt. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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A police officer was shot, and a man was killed in a downtown Shreveport shooting early yesterday morning. Officers responded to a report of four men fighting in an alley off North Spring Street. Eyewitness Tim Huck says the officer was shot while saving another man in the fight.

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Huck says her bulletproof vest did its job, and her injuries are not life-threatening.

The Louisiana Department of Transportation says its making progress on the preliminary work for the Lafayette I49 Connector project which would extend the interstate five and a half miles from I-10 to the Lafayette Regional Airport.  DOTD spokesperson Deidra Druilet says the raised roadway will help alleviate congestion…

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Druilhet says they hope to conclude the environmental review process in January.