A state lawmaker says new LEAP test results indicate a literacy bill that failed to pass the Legislature this year was likely a good idea….
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Anywhere between two to six inches of rain fell across north Louisiana yesterday and we could see a repeat performance today. Matt Hemingway is with the National Weather Service in Shreveport…
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The Flash Flood Watch covers much of central Louisiana and as far south as Beauregard Parish.

New research has determined the mounds on LSU’s campus near Tiger Stadium are the oldest known manmade structures in North America. LSU Geology and Geophysics Professor Emeritus Brooks Ellwood says the age estimate is based on studying sediment from the bottom of the mounds which is ash from burned reed and cane plants as well as charred mammal bone fragments…
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The mounds on LSU’s campus are among the more than 880 man-made, hill-like mounds in Louisiana.

Have you been watching the Apple TV series “Five Days at Memorial.” It’s based on what happened at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans where dozens of patients were suffering and hospital staff had limited options in the days after Hurricane Katrina. The series is adapted from a book written by Sheri Fink…
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45 bodies were recovered from the facility. Then Attorney General Charles Foti charged Doctor Anna Pou and two nurses with second degree murder, but a grand jury in Orleans Parish refused to indict them.