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Louisiana takes huge leap up the rankings in the latest Nation's Report Card
The Nation's Report Card for 2024 shows that Louisiana students are improving tremendously. In the overall ranking, which considers reading and math scores in 4th and 8th grades, Louisiana has moved f...
Jan 29, 2025 Gov. Landry celebrated Louisiana's surge up the state rankings in the Nation's Report Card for 2024 at Magnolia Woods Elementary School in Baton Rouge.
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DOTD announces an additional $3 million in funding for litter pickup project for major federal highways
DOTD has secured an additional three-million-dollars from the state legislature for litter pickup along major federal highways. Spokesperson Rodney Mallet says in the coming months, residents statewid...
Jan 29, 2025 Brian Yurasits / Unsplash
Louisiana strawberry farmers assess crop damage incurred by last week's arctic weather
Strawberry farmers across the state, including one in Livingston Parish, are assessing the damage done by last week's arctic blast. Rachael Harris, the owner of Harris Strawberry Farm in Springfield, ...
Jan 29, 2025
Senator Bill Cassidy responds to President Trump calling to abolish FEMA
President Donald Trump proposed dismantling the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during visits to disaster-stricken areas in North Carolina and California. Senator Bill Cassidy says if you d...
Jan 29, 2025
Governor Landry putting pressure on Senator Cassidy to confirm Robert F Kennedy as U.S. Health Secretary
Governor Jeff Landry has called on the U.S. Senate, specifically Senator Bill Cassidy, to support Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Ser...
Jan 28, 2025 Hudson Institute / CC
Snow possibly saved Louisiana sugarcane from freezing weather
Farmers say sugarcane held up well in last week's winter storm, despite record-breaking single-digit temperatures. LSU AgCenter sugarcane expert Kenneth Gravois says the snow acted as insulation for t...
Jan 28, 2025 Petra Bensted / CC
Egg prices spike in Louisiana due to holiday sales and bird flu
The spread of bird flu (H5N1) has caused egg prices to rise and shelves to empty across Louisiana and the U.S. Nationally, egg prices surged nearly 38-percent in the past year, with the average price ...
Jan 28, 2025 Julie Magro / CC
H.S. sophomore QB from Baton Rouge lands NIL deal
He doesn't graduate from high school for more than two years, but Elijah Haven, the star sophomore quarterback for Dunham High School, already has an NIL deal. Haven has been brought aboard as a spoke...
Jan 28, 2025 Pictures of Money / CC
Rapides Sheriff Mark Wood provides additional information in fatal-officer shooting at Academy Sports and Outdoors
An alleged shoplifter shot by an off-duty Rapides Parish Sheriff's deputy has died. Sheriff Mark Wood says the deputy was working off-duty detail at Academy Sports and Outdoors on Friday night in Alex...
Jan 27, 2025
Five arrested for using drones to smuggle contraband into federal prison
Five people from Houston are arrested for allegedly using drones to smuggle contraband, including drugs and cell phones, into the federal prison in Pollock. "We know that one is in the United States i...
Jan 27, 2025 Gabriele Spalla
