A state audit reveals the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services needs to improve the handling of calls to its child abuse and neglect hotline. That includes the average number of minutes to answer calls and the number of calls abandoned by the person who called into the hotline. DCFS Secretary Terri Ricks says the agency needs 14 additional staffers.
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The audit found 19 percent of the calls to the hotline, resulted in the person hanging up before someone answered.

In New Orleans this morning oral arguments will be heard in a lawsuit that seeks to find FEMA’s flood insurance rates unlawful. Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon…
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The court hearing begins at 9 AM.

We are a month away from a gubernatorial primary that hasn’t provided many fireworks. Teiko Foxx has the story…
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