LEAP scores show Louisiana hasn’t fallen behind other states, but it’s also not time to let the foot off the gas. Brooke Thorington has more.
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According to NOLA.com, UNO president Kathy Johnson has ordered each school to cut its budget by 15-percent and the athletic department will reduce its spending by 25-percent. There’s been a steep decline in enrollment at UNO. Enrollment last fall was 66-hundred that’s down from a peak of 17-thousand in 2003.

The investigation continues into last Thursday’s fatal shooting of Lafayette police officer, Senior Corporal Segus Jolivette, a 35-year-old, who leaves behind a wife and five children. State Police is the lead investigating agency and Trooper Peggy Bourque says they are asking for the public’s assistance…
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The Louisiana Department of Health is urging the public to avoid mosquito bites….
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L-D-H Epidemiologist Therese Sokol says four people from Winnsboro were diagnosed with West Nile neuroinvasive disease after they were bitten by a mosquito.