LRN Newscast 15:30 10-22-14

A man who killed his son’s sexual abductor at the Baton Rouge airport in March of 1984 has died from complications related to a stroke. Gary Plauche shot Jeffrey Doucet at the Baton Rouge airport while a TV camera was rolling. Photographer Abram McGull – who is a former prosecutor -says that video is still being shown…

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Gary Plauche’s son Jodi was 11 years old at the time.

 

Governor Bobby Jindal announces JP Morgan Chase has donated $1 million into the fund that helps technical colleges fund programs focused on training skilled workers…

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The state will match that money with another $ 4 million dollars.

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The Louisiana Department of Education released a report today on the evaluation of public school teachers, showing 92% of teachers received an effective grade. Superintendent John White says while that’s good news about highly effective scores, those outpaced the growth of STUDENT achievement scores…

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But White fully expects the student growth to follow.

 

If you want to take steps to fight the cold and flu season this, health officials say you need to start with a flu shot…

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That’s Dr. Fred Lopez, with the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans.