State education officials say the number of public high school students who earned college credit is up 12-percent over last year and there’s been a 167-percent increase since 2012. State Assistant Superintendent Ken Bradford says the number of African-American students earning college credit through A-P exams is substantial as well…
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University of Louisiana at Lafayette students have created a podcast series that features stories from the 2016 floods. Professor Liz Skilton says not all of the accounts are negative as there are plenty of tales involving people helping people….
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Memories of the 2016 floods podcasts on SoundCloud.

The Youth Infrastructure Coalition, a group of college students, is spearheading a proposed new east-west interstate from Texas to Georgia, that would pass through central Louisiana. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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NOAA has lowered its prediction for the number of named storms for this hurricane season. State Climatologist Barry Keim says the likelihood of an El Nino during the second half of the season is growing
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Keim says sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea have also remained much cooler than average.