An international organization is urging you not to fool around on train tracks. Andre Champagne reports.
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A woman is dead in what police in Bossier City are calling a murder-attempted suicide during a mental health crisis. Sergeant Shawn Poudrier (POO-dree-ur) a SWAT team was brought in and forced its way into the apartment, confronting the man, who was armed.
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Louisiana is making progress in reducing the state’s chronic absentee rates in public schools. After reaching a high of 25 percent in 2023, that number dropped last year by two percent. Misty Davis, the executive director of attendance strategies at the department of education, says the plan to continue that trend is to focus on prevention and improving school culture, instead of punishment.
After a 14-year decline in enrollment, McNeese is seeing an upward trend this year. University President Dr. Wade Rousse (“roose”) announcing this year’s freshman class is 13-percent bigger than last year’s. Rousse says in the last 45 years, there’s been only one instance in which there’s been an increase as big.
Rousse says he credits the increase in enrollment in part to a robust advertising and marketing campaign.