Five juveniles have been arrested in connection with a series of threats posted against high schools in Rapides Parish. Those threats put the entire community on edge and forced the cancellation of one school’s entire homecoming weekend. Pineville Representative Mike Johnson says current laws related to these online threats are too lenient, and the legislature needs to address this in the next session.
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The U-S Department of Education is sending Louisiana an additional 13-point-five million dollars to support charter schools. Assistant Superintendent in the Office of School Choice, Germaine Gilson, on how this round of money can be used:
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Governor Landry has asked the federal government to fund the deployment of one thousand Louisiana National Guard soldiers to help law enforcement fight crime. Jeanne Burns has the story…
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The state is pursuing a criminal case against another out-of-state doctor for mailing abortion pills to a patient in Louisiana. This time, it’s a doctor in California. The woman says her boyfriend used her email address to order mifepristone from the doctor in 2023 and forced her to take it against her will. The same doctor also faces a lawsuit in Texas.