The State Department of Education has set up an online portal to accept comments from the public about Common Core. It’s part of the extensive review process of the controversial English and math standards. Lake Charles Rep. Brett Geymann helped set up this up…
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The online comments are being accepted at louisiana-dot-statestandards-dot-com.

An Avoyelles Parish man has shot and killed his 7 year-old daughter, and then turned the gun on himself…
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That’s Sheriff Doug Anderson, who says they have no idea why 28 year-old Ryan Recktenwald would do this. He says investigators are interviewing people that knew the father.
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The Army announce 388 soldiers will be cut from Fort Polk…
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New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has outlined his proposal to relocate prominent Confederate monuments-including the Robert E Lee statue at Lee Circle and the Jefferson Davis statue on Jefferson Davis Parkway; a roadway he says that also needs to be renamed. After some rather heated discussion in a city council meeting today, Landrieu says there should be a 60-day discussion period to begin the process of removing the Confederate symbols.