The Louisiana Association of Business & Industry is happy with the bills passed in the regular session to establish Education Savings Accounts. LABI President Stephen Waguespack says the state ranks 48th in education and less than half of our students can read at grade level, and a solution is the ESA’s…:
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Triple-A says the statewide average price for a gallon of regular gasoline is up another two cents today to $4.52. Record high gas prices are impacting almost everything, including food banks which are feeling extra pressure to serve the state’s neediest citizens. Second harvest spokeswoman Natasha Curley…
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New details have emerged from early Wednesday morning’s gunfight that took the lives of three teenagers in Bastrop. David Grubb has the story…
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Severe weather is expected to impact most of the state today. Strong thunderstorms have already developed in southeastern Union and Ouachita Parishes this morning. The severe weather threat exists for central and south Louisiana later today.