The Department of Children and Family Services has hired 326 full-time workers since July, which increases their staff to 35 hundred. The agency has been under fire after several high-profile child death cases. DCFS Secretary Terri Ricks says while she’s pleased, they still need more case workers.
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Ricks the number of cases they take on continues to increase.

The Humane Society of Louisiana is urging the state to approve funding for new animal shelters and improve existing ones. Director Jeff Dorson says lawmakers can approve the much needed funding in the upcoming legislative session
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Dorson says they are urging legislators to spend three-million dollars towards the effort.

Louisiana Association of Business and Industry President Stephen Waguespack entered the governor’s race today.

State Police are investigating a Wednesday afternoon crash in Jackson Parish that took the life of 29-year-old Katelyn Granger and her 7-year-old passenger, Anna Rivers. Master Trooper Javier Leija (Hah-vee-er LAY-hah) says at this time they don’t know why Granger failed to break before hitting a stopped school bus on Highway 167.
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None of the children on the school bus were seriously injured.

It was two weeks ago when a suspected cybersecurity attack shutdown Southeastern Louisiana University’s computer network system. The network still has not been fully restored and S-L-U professor Dayne Sherman says students are worried about their classwork and their credit scores…
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Wi-fi has returned to some parts of the campus.