The state department of education says LEAP scores for third through 12th graders are up for a second consecutive year. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Pro bass angler Jake Ormond of Sterlington set a new state record for the largest longnose gar ever caught. Kace Kieschnick has the story…
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State education officials say LEAP scores have improved for a second consecutive year. The latest results show a two-point jump from last year in the percentage of students considered proficient. State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley says that means 33-percent of students are scoring at the mastery rate or above…
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Brumley says for a state that struggles with literacy, he’s pleased to see the mastery rate for third graders in English Language Arts improved five points over last year to 43 for 2023….
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Brumley says it’s also encouraging to see last year’s third graders showed strong improvement in English Language Arts as fourth graders.
He says high school students improved in five out of six subject areas…
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Brumley says U-S history scores declined, but Louisiana is implementing a more rigorous set of social studies standars, called the Freedom Framework, which will be in place for the upcoming school year.
Seventy-five percent of Louisiana school systems improved during the 2022-23 school year.
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Bass pro Jake Ormond set a state record for the largest longnose gar which he caught on Bayou Bartholomew. The Sterlington native was giving a young student a lesson when he spotted the big gar on the surface of the water. After switching rods, it took Ormond three casts to hook the big fish…
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Ormond says he didn’t know it was a state record just the biggest longnose gar he’d ever seen. He trolled the fish back, pulled it up on the ramp and tied it up. A quick google search told him the state record was a 30.88 pound gar and Ormond thought he was close…
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Ormond began making calls to local stores trying to find a set of certified scales, but the scales either didn’t go above thirty pounds or the store wouldn’t let him bring it in the store. He found the biggest cooler he could and put his catch on ice before finally finding K&M Coffee and Camo in Farmerville…
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The fish was just over 31 pounds and 65.5 inches long.
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A three-vehicle crash in Assumption Parish yesterday morning claimed the life of a Houma woman and her unborn child. Trooper Ross Brennan says 23-year-old Tia Gorrell was traveling north on Highway 308 when she was hit by a 2014 Jeep Wrangler…
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The investigation revealed the 2014 Jeep Wrangler was driven by 38-year-old Kendall Dollar. A toxicology sample is pending on Dollar however, Brennan says the driver of the RAM was not suspected of being impaired…
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There have been 15 fatal crashes in the Troop C area resulting in 17 fatalities.
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It’s another day of oppressive heat in the Bayou State. We asked State Climatologist Barry Keim what is causing it and if there is any relief in sight. He says a ridge of high pressure continues to hover over the southeast, it moves in and hangs around for about a week baking the area with triple-digit temperatures.
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Keim says the ridge of high pressure eventually moves along but unfortunately, it’s replaced with another right behind it.
It’s been one of the worst summers on record for heat. Keim says when you look at New Orleans weather data for the first six months of 2023, it’s the warmest of any year on record.
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He says the 104 high temp August 1st in the capital city ranks in the top seven for hottest days ever.
Usually along the coastline, moisture from the Gulf will cycle through and cool things down, but Keim says we’re in a rut with the dome of high pressure. And in that dome is a constant downward motion of hot air.
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Keim says the dome of high pressure keeps thunderstorms that could cool things down away. Along the coast, he says the moisture is there but it’s unable to get vertical motion needed for clouds to produce rain.