Governor Edwards’ re-election chances dip in the latest independent poll from Verne Kennedy. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Governor John Bel Edwards was in Monroe today to announce that all K-12 schools in Louisiana will begin using the RAVE Mobile Safety App, which can alert authorities to emergencies on campus. Teachers can quickly request immediate assistance from law enforcement by hitting the Rave Panic Button app.

The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness activates its Crisis Action Team to monitor Hurricane Dorian. While a Florida landfall is expected, GOHSEP spokesperson Mike Steele says the activation comes as the storm’s exact track is uncertain.
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Steele says even if Dorian has no impact on the state, it’s an important reminder for everyone to be vigilant.

Caddo Sheriff deputies arrested a California man who allegedly used a texting scam in order to steal over 100-thousand dollars from multiple bank accounts. Two other arrest warrants have been issued and there is an additional unidentified suspect. Caddo Parish Sheriff’s office spokesperson Cindy Chadwick says it is up to consumers to protect themselves from similar scams…
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Results of an independent poll on the governor’s race shows that Republican Eddie Risponse’s ad blitz has paid off. U-L Lafayette Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says the survey shows Rispone at 19-percent, six percentage points behind fellow GOP candidate Ralph Abraham…
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Pollster Verne Kennedy conducted the survey and he tells the Advocate that Rispone is up 12 percentage points since his April survey.

Traffic is flowing normally on I-10 over the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge as the clean-up is complete from Monday’s fiery multi-vehicle crash that killed one person. DOTD spokesperson Rodney Mallett says there are some spots on the concrete that are cracked or chipped, but the structure is safe…
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Monday’s chain-reaction pileup killed a trucker from Florida and injured five others.

Caddo Parish Sheriff’s deputies arrested a California man in Shreveport for his part in a texting scam that resulted in over 100-thousand dollars being stolen from numerous bank accounts. Sheriff’s office spokesperson Cindy Chadwick says victims received a text message that said their bank cards were locked and they needed to call and give personal info to unlock them.
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Chadwick says authorities had circulated the picture of 39-year-old Dennis Busch to local businesses. Busch was arrested after a drug store employee spotted him.

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.

The Board of Regents sets an ambitious goal of making sure 60 percent of all working-age adults in Louisiana have post-secondary education by 2030. Higher Education Commissioner Kim Hunter Reed says that would mean more than doubling the number of credentials the state currently produces annually.
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That comes out to increasing credentials from 40,000 a year to over 85,000 a year.

You can now get to the Lafayette area from the east by using I-10. The westbound lanes over the Atchafalaya Basin re-opened yesterday afternoon after they were shutdown for two days, because of clean-up and an inspection following a fiery mutli-vehicle wreck that killed an out of state truck driver. Still no exact cause, but DOTD spokesperson Rodney Mallett says..
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Two teenagers from Haynesville were killed last night in a two-vehicle wreck on Louisiana Highway Two in Clairborne Parish. State Police say the victims, 17-year-old Tony Singleton and 15-year-old Neal Dequez were not wearing seat belts. The driver of the other vehicle was buckled up and sustained moderate injuries.

New data shows nationally, participation in high school athletics has his dipped. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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The Board of Regents wants 60 percent of working-age adults to have a post-secondary education by 2030 in a state where less than half have one…
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State Police say two teenagers from Haynesville were killed in a two-vehicle crash last night on Highway two in Claiborne Parish. Investigators 17-year-old Tony Singleton and 15-year-old Neal Dequez were not wearing their seat belts. L-S-P say Singleton lost control of his Honda Accord and hit a Chevy Suburban. The driver of the Suburban was buckled up and suffered moderate injuries.

Louisiana schools are using money the state received from a federal lawsuit against Volkswagen to replace old diesel school buses with new alternative fuel buses. In 2017 VW pleaded guilty to installing software on their vehicles that hid their nitrogen oxide emission levels. Louisiana Clean Fuels Co-Coordinator Tyler Hermann says the settlement works towards addressing that environmental damage.
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Hermann says money from the settlement can only be used for a narrow range of projects, like purchasing cleaner buses or installing electric charging stations.

For the first time in 30 years, the National Federation of State High School Associations has found that participation in high school sports has declined nationally. LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine says in Louisiana there’s been a slight increase, which is a credit to our coaches, who do a good job of preventing and diagnosing head injuries…
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