Education Secretary Linda McMahon will be at Jefferson Terrace Academy this morning…as part of a nationwide tour. She’ll be visiting classrooms and attending a roundtable discussion. McMahon’s touring the country as the president looks to dismantle the Department of Education at the federal level.
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Pontchatoula’s Elmer Chocolate has been sold to Florida based, Hoffman Family of Companies. But it’s not going anywhere. Elmer CEO, Robert Nelson says the family wants to grow the company and keep it in Ponchatoula for another 170 years. A long-time fan of gold brick toppings on his ice cream, Geoff Hoffman says when he toured the facility he knew Elmer was a company they wanted to partner with.
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August marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina…and premiering tonight on ESPN, a look back at the Saints’ return to the dome that told the world New Orleans would survive. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Inshore shrimp season opens today in Louisiana after a ten-day delay. Louisiana Shrimp Association President Acy Cooper says the later start means bigger shrimp and bigger shrimp mean more money.