Governor Edwards says a pay raise raise for public school teachers will be his number one priority in next year’s legislative session. Edwards is proposing an across-the-board $1,000 dollar pay raise for educators and a 500-dollar bump in pay for school support workers. It will cost an additional 114-million dollars. Edwards says…
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The proposed pay raise would still not get the average teacher salary in Louisiana to the Southern Regional Average.

Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro will not pursue rape charges against three marines and a Tulane University graduate. A woman claims the four men raped her at a new Orleans home earlier this year. A detective testified in June that one of two women involved in the case texted a roommate during the reported assault that everything was fine.

A Southern Poverty Law Center report finds just over one third of all law enforcement agencies in Louisiana do not have racial profiling policies…
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The LSU Ag Center has landed a five-million dollar grant to expand a program that is trying to reduce the obesity rate in rural parishes. AgCenter nutrition specialist Denise Holston says will be used to persuade local stores to stock more healthy items…
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