In a report by the personal finance website WalletHub, Louisiana ranks number one for bullying problems in public schools. Louisiana Department of Education spokesperson Sydni Dunn says schools are required to train personnel on how to identify bullying and ways to re-mediate it…
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Dunn says in the 2011-12 school year, 3,728 cases of bullying were reported to the state, in 2016-17 that number declined to just over one-thousand.

Today through Sunday, you can buy guns, ammo and certain hunting supplies and not pay local sales taxes. But Local Sales Tax Board Executive Director Roger Bergeron says state sales tax taxes do apply and he understands it’s confusing…
cut 8 (07) “…both exempt”
But state lawmakers put an end to state sales tax holidays as part of a budget fix.

Authorities are trying to determine who covered the back of a Mandeville synagogue with swastikas and other Nazi symbols. The phrase “Synagogue of Satan” and “burn” were clearly displayed on the Northshore Jewish Congregation’s walls, along with white supremacist code numbers. Mandeville Police Chief Gerald Sticker…
Cut 13 (11) “…for you.”
Sticker says the perpetrators could be charged with a hate crime.

The former LSU student charged with negligent homicide in the suspected hazing death of Maxwell Gruver will stand trial on July 8th. Also three other former students, charged with hazing, have agreed to work with prosecutors in an effort to convict Matthew Naquin.

Robert Summerhays will be the first new federal judge in Lafayette in over 25 years. The U-S Senate has confirmed Summerhays appointment, who has been working as a federal bankruptcy judge in Louisiana since 2006.