Governor Jindal’s legal counsel is confident they’ll prevail in a lawsuit that claims the Jindal adminitration overstepped its legal authority to halt the implementation of Common Core. Matthew Doyle has the story…
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Louisiana State Police has been called to investigate an officer involved shooting out of Calcasieu Parish. CPSO spokeswoman Kim Myers says one of their deputy’s fired and struck a woman who was approaching him at high speed in her vehicle. The woman’s condition is unknown but she has been arrested on many charges including attempted first degree murder of a police officer.

A 40 year prison sentence has been given to a Bossier City man accused of killing his estranged wife and discarding her remains last November. In a plea deal, Robert Bond plead guilty to manslaughter instead of going to trial on second-degree murder charges. Bossier Parish District Attorney Schuyler Marvin says his office is happy with the sentence…
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46-year-old Annie Bond’s charred remains were found in northern Webster Parish on November 18th.

According to a new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Louisiana ranks No. 47 in the nation for overall well-being of children. The report was published in the 25th edition of the Kids Count Data book. Study co-author Laura Speer says Louisiana lags the nation in 4th and 8th grade reading and math scores and also has a poor graduation rate. She says the lowest ranking in their report is for family and community where Louisiana ranked 48th overall…:
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Speer says Louisiana’s best ranking was at No. 42 and that was in the health category with indicators including percentage of low-birth weight babies and percentage of children without health insurance.