Louisiana voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have funded permanent teacher pay raises, leaving the future of educator salaries uncertain. Amendment 2 aimed to convert last year's temporary $2,000 stipends for teachers and $1,000 for support staff into recurring salary increases. Without its passage, ...

The overwhelming failure of Amendment 2 on Saturday will be a game-changer for the upcoming fiscal session. Jeremy Alford, the editor at LaPolitics.com, says had it passed, it would have been a relatively quiet session. Now, not so much. "We're going to hear debates again over the income tax, which lowering that w...

The Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office has taken down a street gang -- but this one is a little out of the ordinary. Deputies arrested seven members of the Motion Gang on various charges, including attempted first-degree murder, drug possession and weapons charges. Sheriff Jason Ard says this gang is known as a "h...

The author of Amendment 2 is speaking out following its defeat over the weekend. Julie Emerson (R-Carencro) says the reason she authored the amendment as a broad rewrite of Article 7 of the state constitution is because there had been so many changes to it over the years, so she wanted to basically wipe the slate clean...

It took more than a half century, but an arrest has finally been made in the 1970 death of a 16-month-old boy. 76-year-old Alice Bunch Idlett of Norwood has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the death of her toddle. Sulphur Police Chief John Wall says his investigators reopened the case in 2022 at ...