Results from the National Assessment of Education Progress exams shows Louisiana public school students ranking from 43rd to 49th nationally in reading and math. Eric Gill reports…
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One of the men video taped by a private investigator from a firm working for the David Vitter campaign believes Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand was the intended target of the so-called spying incident. Jeff Palermo reports…
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Results from the National Assessment of Education Progress exams, also known as the Nation’s Report Card, shows Louisiana public school students ranking from 43rd to 49th nationally in reading and math. Fourth graders finished 43rd nationally in reading while ranking 45th in math with eighth grade students ranking 48th and 49th respectively. But BESE President Chas Roemer says there are some positives in these results…
While fourth grade performance improved, only 30-percent were deemed proficient in math and 29-percent in reading. Roemer says most student gains came from African-American and at-risk students…
29-percent of eighth graders are considered proficient in reading while just 18-percent are regarded as proficient in math. Roemer hopes the improvement among fourth graders is setting a foundation for the future. He says educators must continue to demand better performance from students…
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Shreveport Police are looking for a gunman who fatally shot one woman multiple times and seriously injured two others. Cpl. Breck Scott says 36-year-old Verdina Crichlow was killed, while 43-year-old Tammy Harris and a 15-year-old were shot multiple times in the upper body inside an apartment.
Scott says they’re unsure of who the shooter is at this time. He says the suspect is still on the loose but detectives are following up on leads and got a description of the man.
CUT 7 (08) “unknown direction”
Scott says authorities have not determined a motive. He says they’re talking with one of the victims to determine what they know about the suspect.
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The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office says a woman is under arrest amid allegations that she tried to kill her 2-year-old little boy. EBRSO spokeswoman Casey Hicks says they received a call from a local hospital indicating that the toddler had been brought in by his mother, 29-year-old Samantha Snell, in critical condition and with multiple fractures:
Hicks says deputies responded to the hospital and interviewed Snell…:
cut 10 (09) “in and out of consciousness”
Hicks says Snell admitted to beating her child and biting him as a form of discipline. She says the woman was angry that her son got water out of the refrigerator which is when she hit him with a belt causing him to fall on the tile floor and hit his head…:(Snell is charged with attempted first degree murder and second degree cruelty to juveniles.)
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One of the men that was video taped by a private investigator from a firm working for the David Vitter campaign believes Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand was the target of the so-called spying incident. Attorney John Cummings says, to him, Normand was without a doubt the target of the investigator…
Robert J. Frenzel, the investigator, is charged with one count of misdemeanor criminal mischief in the incident. Cummings says he believes Normand was the target because the Sheriff’s Association was going to endorse Democrat John Bel Edwards in the gubernatorial runoff…
cut 13 (10) “their endorsement”
Vitter has called the entire episode a “bizarre and silly incident”. But Cummings says Vitter is a strange duck himself…
cut 14 (06) “something sneaky”
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