The Louisiana Association of Educators has released a new survey showing about 78 percent of teachers are against yearly standardized tests of students, because they say the prep time for kids to get ready is taking away from learning time. LAE President Debbie Meaux says it’s a problem now, and a possible problem for the future, as they seek to find new teachers…
CUT 8 (06) Q: “for children”

A late-night shooting at a New Roads nightclub has left two people dead, and authorites on the hunt for the suspect who pulled the trigger. Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff’s Office Captain Steven Juge says the suspect who remains at large is 31 year-old Jamie Croom…
CUT 11 (06) Q; “a club”
That club was the Sugar Shack, and the dead are 38 year-old Seneca Williams and her brother, 41 year-old Lichelle Williams.
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New federal guidelines for an increase in guest worker wages could be hitting crawfish lovers in the pocketbook. Louisiana’s crawfish industry depends heavily on guest workers to perform jobs they cannot fill locally, and processors say the five dollar an hour raise to 12.35 an hour will result in a $3 per pound increase in the price of tail meat…
CUT 4 (07) Q: ‘of the country’
That’s Lafayette restaurant owner and crawfish processor Frank Randol.

In Union Parish, a Bernise woman is under arrest after leaving her 8 month-old son on a relative’s doorstep. With temperatures in the mid-30s before being discovered after about 90 minutes outside, the child was taken to the hospital with pnemonia. Sheriff Dusty Gates says they arrested 23 year-old Keondra Ferguson on criminal child abandonment charges…
CUT 14 (05) Q: ” the child”
The baby is now in the custody of the father.