U.S. Sen. David Vitter introduced an amendment to legislation before the U.S. Senate to fund a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for veterans.
Second-grade student Hunter Davis works with Fast ForWord proctor Lisa Wilson at Hattie Watts Elementary in Patterson. St. Mary Parish public schools have achieved a 5:1 ratio of students to computers and are 41 computers shy of meeting a 3:1 ratio across the parish.
St. Mary Parish public schools are 41 computers away from achieving a ratio of one computer for every three of the district’s 6,280 test-taking students.
LSU has named Dr. Joel Baines as the new dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine. Baines is the associate dean for research and graduate education and the James Law Professor of Virology at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. Baines will begin at LSU on Sept.
Freezing rain was causing extensive outages in Cleco's service territory in central Louisiana on Wednesday morning.
Trees and tree limbs encased in ice are falling, causing more than 27,500 outages statewide. The hardest hit areas are Rapides, Avoyelles and Grant parishes.
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Police have not yet released information regarding an alleged motive by two teenagers charged with arson in a fire that killed a man Saturday.
Kevin Wiley, 36, was found dead on the floor of his bedroom in the mobile home that burned about 4 a.m.
