Ground has been broken on the long awaited Jimmie Davis Bridge replacement project. The 360 million dollar project will be a new bridge connecting south Bossier City and Shreveport. DOTD Secretary Joe Donahue.
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The new bridge will have two more lanes, a median, and three spaces for U-turns.

Today in Shreveport, the annual the governor’s on conference Juvenile Justice gets underway. Chair of the Governor’s Board on Juvenile Justice, Vi-eve Kohrs says the conference serves as a platform for networking and building partnerships among participants committed to reforming and improving outcomes for at-risk youth.
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Two people were arrested, and 33 dogs rescued from poor living conditions in a Jamestown residence in Bienville Parish. Colleen Crain has the story.
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The East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office has ruled the death of an infant left in the backseat of a car last month as an accident. The child was in the vehicle for the entire day. The parent told deputies they planned to drop the toddler off at daycare and didn’t realize the child was in the vehicle until the parent went to the day care facility to pick up the child.

Ground has been broken on the long awaited Jimmie Davis Bridge replacement project. Mel Bridges has more.
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15-hundred AT&T workers in Louisiana are on strike accusing the company of unfair labor practices during contract negotiations. They are among the more than 17-thousand AT-and-T workers in nine states that have walked off the job. AT-and-T and the Communications Workers of America have been trying since June to reach a new labor agreement. AT-and-T denies the union’s accusations.

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and Ascension Parish have signed a memorandum of understanding to deal with pounds of red dust falling on homes and schools around the former L’Alumina aluminum plant in Sorrento. DEQ Secretary Aurelia Giacometto (Aw-real-ea Gee-ack-oh-met-oh) says the M-O-U basically says…
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The cleanup would cost 13 to 18 million. DEQ has 5.5 million from L’Alumina, and they’re in contact with the company to get more.

The 43rd annual Louisiana Governor’s Conference on Juvenile Justice gets underway today in Shreveport. Governors Board on Juvenile Justice Chair Vi-eve Korhs says This year’s agenda includes topics such as juvenile delinquency prevention, rehabilitation programs, and mental health support…
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Thirty-two-year-old Hannah Cormier from Jennings bond is set at one-million-dollars after she was charged with second-degree murder for allegedly leaving her 10-month-old daughter in a car for two hours while she worked a shift at Wendy’s. Jennings Police Chief Danny Semmes…
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Semmes calls it a complex case that resulted in the murder charge.

43-year-old Anthony Hughes is recovering after getting shot near Bossier High School’s football stadium as a Spirit Event was taking place last night. Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office Lt. Matt Gaydos says Hughes got into an altercation with some juveniles during the event, leading to a fight in the parking lot. Gaydos says 32-year-old Marcus Kelly shot Hughes and then the two were involved in a car crash…
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Kelly faces several charges including attempted second-degree murder.

State Superintendent of Education Dr. Cade Brumley’s Let Teachers Teach policy package is being considered by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education which is meeting today and tomorrow. Brumley says one of the goals of the new education policies is giving effective educators more freedom over lesson planning, as currently…
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Brumley says the policies also tighten student discipline, giving teachers the right to have a student removed from the classroom immediately when their behavior prevents instruction.

On the first night of the Democratic National Convention, a woman from Baton Rouge told the crowd at the D-N-C about her inability to get medical treatment while miscarrying because of the state’s near-total abortion ban. Kaitlyn Joshua was denied care in 2022….
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Republican Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murril says there’s nothing in the state’s law that prohibits emergency care for someone having a miscarriage or any emergency situation during pregnancy.

A report from the Public Affairs Research Council finds public school enrollment has declined by five percent over the last four years. PAR President Steve Procopio says the numbers are concerning…
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Procopio says a declining population and more parents turning to home schooling are two reasons for the decline.

The state is asking for expansion of harvest opportunities for black bellied whistling ducks. Sportsmen and farmers say these birds need to be better controlled and as they are showing up in larger numbers and earlier in the year and disappear before the regular season begins. LDWF Secretary Madison Sheahan estimates they cause 500-thousand to one-million dollars worth of damage to rice farmers every year…
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Sheahan says their letter to the U-S Fish and Wildlife Service asks for the ability to establish harvest opportunities during the early September teal season.

Governor Jeff Landry is in northwest Louisiana today. He’s set to speak at the Bossier City Chamber luncheon at 11:30 and then he’ll attend a ground breaking ceremony for the long awaited Jimmie Davis Bridge replacement project. That bridge connects south Bossier City and Shreveport.

The Jennings Police Department has charged 32-year-od Hannah Cormier with second degree murder and cruelty to juveniles for leaving her 10-month old child in a hot car for two hours while she performed a shift at Wendy’s last week. Cormier said it was a terrible accident. Jennings Police have not released details on what led to the charges.

The Council for A Better Louisiana says several indicators they keep track of show Louisiana’s wellbeing is trending downwards. Colleen Crain has more…
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57 delegates from Louisiana are in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. New Orleans Representative Mandie Landry is one of those delegates and she says she’s proud to support Democratic presidential presumptive nominee Kamala Harris and her campaign promises…
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Governor Jeff Landry held a press conference today to announce the launch of the largest broadband expansion program in the history of Louisiana. One-point-three billion dollars from the federal infrastructure law passed in 2021 will be used to expand broadband to 140-thousand locations, including 100-thousand homes. Director of the Office of Broadband Development and Connectivity Veneeth Iyengar….
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