Mandeville Representative Richard Nelson says he’s determined to pass his bill that requires third graders to pass a literacy test in order to advance to the fourth grade. Nelson says the latest LEAP results show 41-percent of fourth-grade students read below their grade level. Opponents to the legislation say it will hurt minority students, but Nelson says his measure would do just the opposite…
cut 12 (10) “…later in life”

The miniseries Five Days at Memorial is currently streaming on Apple TV. It looks back at what happened in the chaotic and frustrating days at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The series is based on the book written by Sheri Fink…
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45 patients died during these difficult days.

Federal officials say nationally the traffic death numbers for the first quarter of this year are the worst in twenty years. State officials say there’s a glimmer of good news here, but only a glimmer. Marsanne Golsby has more.
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Another rainy day across Louisiana and a large portion of the state, all of north and central Louisiana, is under a flash flood watch until 7 PM tonight. Matt Hemingway is with the National Weather Service in Shreveport….
cut 15 (08) “…after seven o’ clock”