East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome calls controversial comments made at the Metro Council meeting regarding last year’s violent summer in the Capitol City hateful and offensive. Jeff Palermo has more…
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Saints and Pelicans Owners Tom and Gayle Benson are getting into the beer business as they’ve announced the pruchase of Dixie Brewing Company. Hurricane Katrina destroyed the brewery that once made Dixie Beer, but the plan is to get the New Orleans brewery up and running again.

Over 65-hundred students who took Advanced Placement Tests this year scored well enough to earn college course credit. State Superintendent of Education John White says that’s a 10-percent increase from last year and a 137-percent increase from 2012. White says credits the work of high school teachers…
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White says students who earn college credit in high school save about seven million dollars in college costs.

The Cajun music community is saddened over the death of D.L. Menard who has passed away at the age of 85. Executive Director of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, Mike Shepherd, says Menard was known as the Cajun Hank Williams.
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His hit “The Back Door” has sold over half a million copies.