“Marsh Madness” gets ramped up today in Lake Charles as three girls’ state championship basketball teams will be crowned tonight. Jeff Palermo has more…
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The Bossier Parish Sheriff’s office says the woman “Bossier Doe,” who was found murdered in January 1981, has finally been identified. Michelle Southern reports.
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BESE votes against a proposal that would have waived penalties against schools who have students that opt out from taking Common Core exams. Scott Carwile has more…
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“Marsh Madness” gets ramped up today in Lake Charles as three girls’ state championship basketball teams will be crowned tonight. Four more championships will be decided tomorrow and the boys’ Top 28 tournament will begin there next week. Sales Director of the Southwest Louisiana Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, Eric Zartler, says these events are great for the local economy…
This is the second year Lake Charles has hosted both the boys’ and girls’ state basketball tournaments. Today’s state championship games will be highlighted by the Class 3-A title game between Mansfield and Baton Rouge’s University High. Zartler says they’re excited about tonight’s championship clash…
Zartler says if you’re a hoops fan, the best basketball in the state will be played in Lake Charles over the next two weeks. He says they’re hopeful that they can make “Marsh Madness” a tradition.
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Yesterday was a brutally cold day, but as things warm up today there’s hope that spring is just around the corner. Fred Zeigler with the National Weather Service in Slidell says temperatures across the state remained in the 30s most of Thursday but today we’ll be in 40s to low 50s…:
CUT 7 (10) “about 15 to 20 degrees”
Zeigler says yesterday was about as miserable a day you can get weather-wise as it was not only cold but cloudy, damp and wind chills were in the 20s. He says while it’s not unusual in March to see that kind of cold, the dramatic difference from 70s and 80s one day to 30s and 40s the next was not the norm…:
Zeigler says today it’s still cool but it’s dry and nice outside. He says taking a look at the long range forecast, we can expect temperatures in the 50s and 60s the next couple of days, but get ready for some gloomy rain to return on Sunday…:
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The Bossier Parish Sheriff’s office says they are pleased to announce that after 34 years “Bossier Doe” now has an identity. Sgt. Dave Faulk says in January 1981 hunters found a partially decomposed body of an unknown white female who had been murdered and left in the woods. He says all these years they didn’t know who she was or where she came from…:
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Faulk says in November of last year they launched a full DNA profile of Bossier Doe then in February, in a desperate attempt to find out who she was, detectives launched a Facebook page in the name of Bossier Doe. He says someone recognized the composite on Facebook as looking familiar to a picture of a woman missing from Michigan on a Craigslist ad..:
Authorities gathered more information about 17-year-old Carol Ann Cole of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and determined through DNA testing that she was Bossier Doe. Faulk says she was stabbed to death and this is now an open homicide investigation. He says they are grateful a family in Michigan has closure…:
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BESE rejects a proposal to waive penalties against schools who have students that opt out from taking the Common Core exam. In a 7-to-4 vote, BESE agreed with Superintendent of Education John White, who says let’s wait and see how many opt outs there are first
A zero score will be given for each student who doesn’t take the test, which could lower a school’s performance score. Critics say that’s not fair to the school or the child, but White says let’s wait and see what happens March 16th to the 20th when students take the standardized test
Before the vote, BESE members heard from frustrated parents and educators who are upset over the new academic standards and the tests tied to them. This parent didn’t hide her feelings…
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Bossier Parish school board member Bill Lott complained to BESE that he’s for higher standards but Common Core teaches children liberal messages
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Spring football gets underway for LSU on Saturday and Tiger fans hope the the 14 practices that will lead up to the Spring Game on April 18th will result in improved play out of the quarterback position. Tiger Rag Editor Cody Worsham expects the Q-B battle between Anthony Jennings and Brandon Harris to continue into the fall
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Worsham says spring football will give a chance for some of the Tigers young wide receivers to mature like Malachi Dupre and Trey Quinn….
On the other side of the ball, LSU needs two new starting defensive ends. Worsham says this is a big spring practice for six-foot-five junior Tashawn Bower and the rest of the Tigers D-Line….