A bill aiming to crack down on marijuana use near schools advances to the Senate. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The House Education Committee has approved a Senate-passed bill that looks to stop the trend of school districts moving to a four-day school week. Franklinton Senator Beth Mizell says adding hours to a school day so that everyone can have a three-day weekend does not mean better learning.
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A teenager is dead and five others are wounded following a shootout next to the food court at the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge. Sources say the person who died from his injuries was a 17-year-old. Three of the victims are seniors at Ascension Episcopal High School in Lafayette Parish. Authorities say they were innocent bystanders. Baton Rouge police chief T.J. Morse says it all began yesterday afternoon when two groups of people got into an argument, and that’s when gunfire erupted.
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An arrest has been made in a 30 year old homicide in Lafayette Parish, the 1994 stabbing death of then 47 year old John Perry Meche. The break in the case happened as Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s detectives reviewed the case, working with the Acadiana Crime Lab which was able to make DNA from the cold case. We’re told 60 year old Clinton Dronet is charged with Second Degree Murder in the case.