Former President George W Bush touted education successes in New Orleans as he visited the Crescent City for the ten year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Bush says because of the proliferation of charter schools, test scores and graduation rates are up in the Big Easy…
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Bush delivered the speech at Warren Easton High School. He also spoke there on the first anniversary of Katrina.

Monroe-based Centurylink announces plans to bring high-speed internet to more than 24-thousand rural households and businesses in Louisiana. Centurylink Senior vice-president John Jones says they have accepted money from the Federal Communications Commission to get this work done…
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He says construction on the project is set to begin early next year.

The latest forecast track of Erika shows the tropical storm could move into the western Gulf of Mexico early next week. State Climatologist Barry Keim…
cut 10 (09) “…very,very carefully”
Erika is expected to move across Cuba on Saturday and weaken into a depression.

Funeral services are Saturday for Senior State Trooper Steven Vincent, who died from a gunshot wound. Governor Bobby Jindal is expected to be in attendance for the funeral Mass at a church in Lake Charles.

The man who is accussed of fatally shooting a police officer in Sunset this week was taken to the hospital today, but authorities believe Harrison Riley Junior was faking a medical condition. St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz says Riley was unresponsive inside his cell this morning, but was fine when checked by doctors at a local hospital.