The state education department releases guidelines for schools to reopen with students in the classrooms. Jeff Palermo reports from third grade and on up masks will be required…
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And for additional school guidelines if the state remains in Phase Two when schools reopen in August maximum group sizes for students would be constrained to 25, no contact sports or band would be allowed, and school bus capacity would be capped at 50 percent. If we move to Phase Three contact sports are in and the number roughly double.
Caddo Parish Coroner Doctor Todd Thoma determines a 63-year-old black man died of febrile delirium while in the custody of Shreveport first responders last April. Thoma says first responders worked quickly to apply medical care to Austin.
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A group called 45 days of Action Shreveport seeks answers on why Austin and Tommie McGlothen died in police custody in April.
State workers won’t be getting their scheduled pay raise if the budget remains in its current form. A Senate committee backed a pause in pay raises with plans to reevaluate the possibility later in the year. Evangeline Parish Senator Heather Cloud says the economy is too uncertain right now…