Public and charter students in grades three through 12 are making record-breaking achievements in the classroom. State Education Superintendent Cade Brumley says this year’s LEAP scores set new standards for the state.
That 36-percent of students who achieved Mastery or Advanced is the highest overall performance in the state’s history.
State Police is investigating a fatal police shooting in downtown Shreveport early Sunday morning. L-S-P says an armed subject shot an officer and the armed subject was shot by police and died at the scene. Bar owner Tim Huck saw the shooting and says the officer was responding to a fight in an alley…
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L-S-P says the wounded officer suffered non-life threatening injuries.
The lawyer representing Attorney General Liz Murrill calls the 16-count Orleans Parish grand jury indictment against her client a political witch hunt. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The Trump Administration says it plans to open a 528-bed holding center for migrant families and unaccompanied children at the former England Air Force Base in Alexandria. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement say migrants will only be there for a few days and then they’ll be deported, but immigration advocates are concerned children could be held there for weeks or months.