Evageline parish public schools are closed Today after multiple threats against area schools were made online. Six threats were reported and only one case has been resolved superintendent Darwin lazard said in a statement according to a katc-tv report.
On Monday a 15 year old boy was arrested for allegedly making threats on social media to shoot students at an Evengeline Parish school. Ville Platte Police launched an investigation after residents reported seeing the threat on line.All parish schools will be searched to determine if any of the threats were credible.
A member of the Tangipahoa parish school board is under scrutiny after sharing a photo of a noose on facebook. Tangiopahoa school board member Mike Whitlow allegedly shared a picture of a noose on a Facebook message that read “if we want to make America great again we have to make evil people fear punishment again.”
Whitlow has deleted the post and apologized Tangipahoa parish council member Louis Joseph says he is offended by the post.
A female employee at False River Academy died Monday afternoon in a vehicle accident that occurred on the New Roads campus. 66 year old Edith Atkinson was killed when she was pinned between her husband’s truck and a school bus. Her 74 year old husband was driving the truck.
Will Wade’s LSU men’s basketball team is close to completing an astonishing turn around less than a year after the Tigers bottomed out at 10-21 last year. A win tonight versus Vanderbilt would give LSU 16 victories and guarantee a winning record for this season. Wade says a big part of the turnaround is due to his team locking down the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.