The investigation continues today into the weekend house fire in Alexandria that killed four people, including three children. Alexandria Fire Department Chief Larry King says the deadly blaze started late Saturday night and half the home was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived…
King says there were no working smoking detectors in the home.
Governor Edwards will lay out his legislative agenda today at the Baton Rouge Press Club, exactly one week before the start of the 2020 session. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat expects the Governor will continue pushing a minimum wage increase and equal pay for women, Democratic priorities, but also tout a major bipartisan policy…
The Governor’s budget recommends a 25 million dollar increase in early childhood education spending.
The LSU National Center for Biomedical Research and Training is set to start helping first responders from around the country prepare for the coronavirus. NCBRT Associate Director of Research and Development Jerry Monier says they’re developing training that will teach responders the history of the virus, how to ID it, how to respond to it, and then…
NCBRT will release information on when these trainings will become available on its website.
LSU Manship School of Mass Communication professor Len Apcar relaunches a website that aims to help spot fake news and disinformation. The website, detectfakenews.com, is a curated resource guide on the latest developments in fake news. Apcar says fake news is all around us, but it’s a small percentage of the overall amount of information out there. However, it is increasing.
Cut 11 (09) “…more fake news.”
Apcar says the process of fact-checking is usually a quick one with the website.