With Common Core testing scheduled for March, some families have decided on opting their kids out of taking the tests. Eric Gill has more…:
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Congressman Bill Cassidy has introduced legislation today that would ban taxpayer funds from being used for oil paintings of elected officials including the president, vice president or members of Congress. Cassidy says tax dollars should go to building roads or improving schools, not oil paintings very few people ever see or care about.

Four are dead after an overnight fire in Avoyelles Parish. State Fire Marshall Butch Browning says a father, grandmother, son, and daughter all perished in the blaze. The victims’ ages range from 10 to 73-years-old. Browning says firefighters tried to do a search of the mobile home, but the flames were too intense…:
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Browning says they believe the four victims were asleep at the time of the fire. The cause is under investigation.

High school principals vote to keep the current split between public and private schools that exists with the football playoffs and allow the new executive director of the LHSAA, Eddie Bonine, to develop solutions that could possibly bring the classes back together. Bonine says his first step will be to organize a committee to examine the issues that caused the split…:
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