Tangipahoa Parish deputies arrest seven in connection with the fatal shooting a 16-year-old last weekend. More from Jeff Palermo…:

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More trouble at Louisiana schools, which have plagued with bomb and school violence threats in recent weeks. Today, Paul Breaux Middle School in Lafayette Parish received a bomb threat. Acadiana High was put on lockdown due to an active shooter threat. Both proved to be hoaxes and the all-clear has been given.

The state has made in-roads in filling a huge shortage of qualified school teachers. Speaking to the state Senate Education Committee, Education Superintendent Cade Brumley says new legislation has helped lower the number from over 2500 to about 1200. But Brumley says a backlog of teacher certification applications has grown past seven-thousand because there’s not enough state workers to process them…:

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Brumley says they’ve brought in some part-time help to reduce the backlog.

From teacher shortages to nursing shortages. LSU Health New Orleans says they’ll use a $3-million federal grant to help with that by teaching nurses how to teach nurses. LSU’s Leanne Fowler says the shortages are worst in the state’s rural areas…:

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Nurses entering the program will get 40 hours of training before they start teaching.