Another teacher from Destrehan High School has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a then 16-year-old female student. Eric Gill reports…:
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Walmart announced today the company will be closing 269 stores worldwide, including 8 in Louisiana. LSU Marketing Professor Dan Rice the company is cutting stores that aren’t as profitable. He says Walmart knows they need to be smart about where they’re spending their money.
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The LHSAA says it didn’t follow the organization’s own constitution when adopting the public-private split in 2013. LRN Sports Director and LHSAA Game of the Week announcer Jeff Palermo says the vote was done by school principals and not by the executive committee. He says for those who wanted to go back to the old playoff system, this is a huge win — but it’s not the last we’ll hear about the public-private split…:
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The LHSAA only has a couple of weeks to come up with a plan before their annual convention which begins on the 27th.

It was a huge week for politics in Louisiana. John Bel Edwards was sworn in as the state’s 56th governor and President Barack Obama visited Baton Rouge Thursday. LaPolitics-dot-com publisher Jeremy Alford says the fireworks got going before the governor’s inauguration when the state House elected New Iberia Republican Taylor Barras as its new Speaker…:
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