Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall in southeast Louisiana. Among those who rode out the deadly storm was Louisiana’s lieutenant governor….
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We could have another Republican candidate enter next year’s U-S Senate race. The USA Today Network is reporting St. Tammany Parish Councilwoman Kathy Seiden is likely to challenge incumbent GOP Senator Bill Cassidy. Seiden has hired a pollster affiliated with President Trump to see if there’s support for the mother of four who lives in Mandeville.
A missing Jennings woman has been found dead near I-10 and State Police believes she was the victim of a hit and run. Trooper Pegg Bourque says the search is on for the vehicle that hit 53-year-old Bonnie Fontenot and left her for dead on the Interstate 10 frontage road near U-S Highway 165 in Jefferson Davis Parish. Bourque says the exact circumstances of the crash are unclear…
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The Louisiana Department of Education is taking five million dollars in federal funding and putting it towards the Steve Carter Tutoring Program. Deputy Superintendent Doctor Jenna Chiasson says high dosage tutoring has been a key factor in Louisiana moving from 49th to 32nd on The Nation’s Report Card…
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Chiasson says this five million dollar investment will provide tutoring to children on a waitlist for the program.