Public school superintendents in Louisiana are having difficulties finding part-time and substitute teachers as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Eric Gill has more…
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A south Louisiana high school football coach was killed over the weekend in a shooting outside of a Baton Rouge night club. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Public school superintendents in Louisiana are having difficulties finding part-time and substitute teachers as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Scott Richard, Executive Director of the Louisiana School Boards Association, says work restrictions within the ACA, limiting part-time workers to 30 hours a week, is a real problem…
CUT 3 (07) “them health insurance”
Richard says if substitutes work more than 30 hours a week, they must be offered health insurance. He says this makes finding substitutes more difficult, especially when a teacher is on an extended leave. Richard says, now, school systems are basically using existing staff to cover for teachers who are out…
CUT 4 (09) “in public education”
He says school districts want qualified teachers subbing in the classroom when needed. Richard says they plan to work with the state legislature to ease restrictions on retired teachers returning to work…
CUT 5 (12) “already have insurance”
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The Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred in Jeanerette last night. Major Ryan Turner says Jeanerette Police officers responded to a suspicious person complaint. When they arrived, they learned the suspect had fled. Turner says the officers found the suspect a short time later…
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He says when officers caught up with the suspect, 42-year-old Lance Dauphine of Jeanerette, he brandished a knife at the officers. Turner says, as a result of the confrontation, Dauphine and one of the officer were taken to a local hospital…
CUT 7 (06) “striking the suspect”
Detectives learned that the suspect was shot after stabbing the officer. Both individuals have been released from the hospital. Turner says Dauphine was immediately taken into custody upon his release… (Dauphine is charged with two counts of attempted first degree murder of a police officer.)
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West St. John High School in Edgard is mourning the death of one of its football coaches, who was killed early Sunday morning outside of a Baton Rouge nightclub. Authorities say Juan Joseph, who served as the Rams’ quarterbacks coach, got into an argument with some other men, when someone in a car fired shots. West St. John Head Coach Robert Valdez is in disbelief
The search continues for the man responsible for the fatal shooting. Joseph was 27-years-old and was the quarterback on West St. John’s 2003 and 2004 state title teams. Valdez says Coach Joseph will be missed
Joseph leaves behind a four-year-old daughter and his wife is expecting the birth of their second child. The West St. John football team faces Varnado in a playoff game this Friday. Valdez says he’ll miss his quarterbacks coach
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Louisiana is once again hit with another chilly day and is facing more freezing temperatures tonight. The National Weather Service has issued more freeze warnings for much of the state from 11pm tonight to 9am tomorrow morning. Meteorologist Joe Rua says most of the northern and central part of the state will get temperatures in the mid 20s…:
cut 12 (09) “at least a light freeze”
Rua says the freeze is expected to last several hours. He says these temperatures are highly unusual for this time of year…:
Rua says this winter weather event will linger tomorrow before it moves east…: