According to highway safety officials, three-thousand people have been killed or injured in vehicle crashes during Halloween since 2019. Louisiana Highway Safety Commission Executive Director Lisa Freeman has this message for Trick or Treaters and motorists….

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And Freeman says if you consume alcohol, do not drive.

A study from Bankrate finds that infant care, costs nearly 10-thousand dollars a year per child in Louisiana that’s slightly below the national average. Bankrate’s Alex Galley encourages families to look into subsidy programs that can help pay for daycare…

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The Louisiana Department of Transportation says nine Louisiana high schools are competing in the Buckle Up Phone Down High School Showdown. Colleen Crain has the story.

Cut 1 (32) “…I’m Colleen Crain.”

The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office has charged a 12-year-old girl with terrorizing-menacing after the child allegedly bragged about a ‘hit list” she produced. The girl was taken out of Leblanc Middle School in Sulphur.

And a 14-year-old in St. Tammany Parish was also taken into custody after sending threatening text messages to students at a private school in Covington.