Baton Rouge Police arrest the suspected gunman in the early Friday morning shooting at a fraternity party just off the campus of Southern University…:
CUT 01(33) “…Thorington.”
Award winning Louisiana author Ernest Gaines will be honored with a commemorative postage stamp. His books have been compared with Hemingway and Faulkner, and he is considered among America’s greatest writers. Perhaps his best-known work is “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.” Gaines passed away in 2019 at age 86.
Louisiana ranks number one in the nation for 2022 for improvement in fourth grade reading. State Superintendent of Education Doctor Cade Brumley says over the last two years, Louisiana has implemented a number of policy decisions to curb the state’s long-standing literacy crisis, and that has raised the state from 49th to 43rd place among states, and READING scores also went up…:
CUT 07(11) “…49th to 45th.”
Today Gov. John Bel Edwards signed the official Proclamation declaring October 24th as Red Beans and Rice Day across Louisiana. In that spirit, Cajun Country rice and Camellia Beans are both working with Second Harvest and Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank for families in need. Cajun Country’s Robbie Trahan says we love our red bean and there are any number of ways to cook them..:
CUT 13(12) “…the best.”
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