We’re going to go from a scorcher of a work week to a wet weekend – at least in South Louisiana. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says a tropical system that’s working its way west along the Gulf Coast is bringing heavy rains and thunderstorms, and some areas experienced some of that last night.
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An update to a story we brought you earlier this week on Louisiana Radio Network. Earlier, the Trump administration released 28-million dollars in previously-withheld after-school grants for Louisiana. Now, the Department of Education says it’s going to release an additional 1.3-billion dollars. Michael Faulk, the executive director of the Louisiana School Superintendents Association, says that gets the state closer to the funding it had been expecting.
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Procter & Gamble is hosting its WOW Community Event and job fair at the Randolph Riverfront Center in Alexandria Saturday. Kace Kieschnick has more.