Education Superintendent John White says after the first day of PARCC testing, preliminary findings show about 99% of students participated. He says there are four school systems where he would call the non-participants rate moderate to significant: Calcasieu, Jackson, Red River, and Central. White says he has invited the Superintendents in these systems to meet with him face to face…

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He says more than 320,000 students took the test associated with Common Core.

Jury selection begins today in Lafayette in the first-degree murder trial of Seth Fontenot, accused of a 2013 shooting that killed 15-year old Austin Rivault and injured two others. Legal analyst Tim Meche believes this this case will result in either a manslaughter or a second-degree murder conviction…

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Fontenot claims he fired to scare the teens, who he thought were breaking into his truck, not to hurt them.

Shreveport Representative Barbra Norton has filed a bill for the upcoming legislative session that would make it illegal to supply a child 12 or under with an Uzi sub-machine gun. Michelle Southern reports…

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The Lafayette school bus driver being investigated for drunk driving after a crash with children aboard last week has resigned from his job. Four children suffered minor injuries when the bus driven by 50-year-old John Bernard ran into a ditch. Bernard claimed he was avoiding an oncoming vehicle, but investigators were able to determine that was not true. Bernard was cited with careless operation of a vehicle and blood alcohol test results are pending. Bernard’s resignation was effective Monday.