The Senate Education Committee approves a bill requiring every school in Louisiana to have an automated external defibrillator on campus in case a person goes into cardiac arrest. Jeff Palermo reports…:

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A related story here. Just yesterday, at Jena High School, a student passed away after going into cardiac arrest in class. Life saving measures were tried, but to no avail. The student’s name has not yet been released. An autopsy is scheduled. Meanwhile, Jena High has postponed scheduled LEAP testing for two weeks.

Attorney General Jeff Landry has released his first campaign ad in his run for Governor. The spot focuses on crime as citizens’ top concern. UL-Monroe political science professor Pearson Cross says statewide advertisement during an election year gets mighty costly…:

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John Schroder, State Treasurer, was actually the first candidate to run a political campaign ad for governor this election year. The gubernatorial primary is October 14.

Camp Beauregard will be officially renamed as the Louisiana National Guard Training Center in Pineville later this year. Lt. Col Noel Collins says through the guidance of the National Defense Authorization Act the training installation was given a new moniker…:

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The camp was named after Confederate war hero P.G.T. Beauregard, and is now generally considered insensitive to descendants of slaves.