BESE board member Paul Hollis will soon be leaving his post to become the new director of the U.S. Mint. The former lawmaker from St. Tammany Parish says he’s been an avid coin collector his entire life, ever since his grandmother gave him a coin she had saved from the Great Depression.
Louisiana has stopped a large-scale coastal restoration project called the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion Project. The chairman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, Gordon Dove, says the state will now move forward with a smaller diversion plan called the Myrtle Grove project in Plaquemines Parish.
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The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is holding another black bear hunting season; and as Colleen Crain reports; this year’s will be even bigger than last year’s.
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The body of a missing St. Martin Parish teen has been found. St. Martinville Police Department officials say the body of 15 year old Iris Davis, was found in a field near her home her residence. Officials say the teen’s death is being investigated as a homicide.