Just as some 316-thousand students are taking the Common Core tests this week, Governor Bobby Jindal announces a plan to remove Common Core from Louisiana’s public schools and replace it with a plan and test developed by Louisiana teachers and parents. He says his son -who is in fifth grade–like many children–have their own take on the tests…
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Jindal says the plan will be presented to lawmakers in the upcoming legislative session next month.

While drivers enjoy low gas prices, the plummeting price of crude is starting to take its toll on the oil industry — with layoffs happening here in Louisiana. In the past few months, about a thousand oil industry jobs have been lost, according to the Louisiana Workforce Commission. State officials say they are optimistic that the losses will be temporary.
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A Natchitoches man is under arrest for simple battery and hate crimes after an incident at a local business. Thirty-five-year-old Roderick Rachal (rah-Shall) was booked shortly after a female victim told officers a man she did not know grabbed her buttocks…
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That’s Natchitoches Police Captain Chris Payne.

A former caretaker of LSU’s mascot Mike the Tiger wrote a letter to a Baton Rouge newspaper expressing concern over the live Tiger’s increasing lack of appearing in the stadium during home football games. Mike the Sixth did not go to a single contest last season. Paul Marks Jr. says they never had this problem back in the sixties…
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On Mike the Tiger’s Facebook page, he tells fans a Friday fast doesn’t motivate him to get in the cage on gamedays.