Traffic is flowing normally on I-10 over the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge now that the clean-up is complete from Monday’s fiery multi-vehicle crash that killed one person. State department of transportation spokesperson Rodney Mallett says there are some spots on the concrete that are cracked or chipped, but it is nothing that renders the structure as unsafe…
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Monday’s chain-reaction pileup killed a trucker from Florida and injured five others.

For the first time in 30 years, the National Federation of State High School Associations has seen a decline in the number of students participating in high school sports. But L-H-S-A-A executive director Eddie Bonine says Louisiana has actually seen an increase of three-thousand more prep athletes and he credits proper sportsmanship…
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The Board of Regents has set a goal that by 2030, 60-percent of all adults between the ages of 25 and 64 will have either a college degree or some sort of post-secondary credential. Only 44-percent of Louisiana adults currently have reached that benchmark. Higher Ed Commissioner Kim Hunter Reed says the labor market is approaching a point where a high school diploma just won’t cut it…
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A recent study showed Louisiana was one of the states most at risk of losing jobs to automation and robotics.

Louisiana schools are using money from a federal lawsuit against Volkswagen to replace old diesel school buses with new alternative fuel buses. The state received nearly 20-million dollars from the settlement, and Louisiana Clean Fuels co-coordinator Tyler Hermann says the money will subsidize half of the cost of alternative fuel buses for school districts….
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The settlement money was disbursed to states based on the number of VWs sold in each state.