Education Week Magazine’s Quality Counts report ranks Louisiana 49th in academic achievement as the state does not compare well with others when it comes the performance of fourth and eighth graders in the areas of math and reading. But Holly Yetcick says with Education Week says Louisiana is making slight gains. She says the biggest improvement was seen with fourth graders and their reading ability…
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The Attorney General’s office is not happy that the town of Springfield in Livingston Parish re-hired Jimmy Jones as its police chief after he pled guility to misdemeanor criminal mischief last year. Prosecutor David Caldwell calls it a dumb idea, but Town Attorney Brian Abels says the community has faith Jones will do a good job as police chief…
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Jones started work as the town’s police chief this week.

The Louisiana National Guard is mobilizing to assist, local, parish and state emergency officials in advance of flooding threats due to near record crests expected on the Mississippi River. Eric Gill has more…
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The man suspected of stabbing LSU tight end Dillon Gordon during a bar fight earlier this week has been arrested. Twenty-year-old Jamal Joseph Vaughn of Gonzales has been charged with aggravated second-degree battery.

And the voice of the Tigers, Jim Hawthorne, has been chosen as the master of ceremonies for Governor elect John Bel Edwards inauguration ceremonies.