Public and charter students in grades 3-12 are making record-breaking achievements in the classroom. State Education Superintendent Cade Brumley says this year's LEAP scores set new standards for the state. "Our students who have achieved, at that basic level of understanding or better, is around 62% of students t...

LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center has launched a research study to test different ways to treat childhood obesity. It's called the COACH trial and children 5-17 who are obese can visit a health clinic near them and receive weight management treatment. Dr. Amanda Staiano is the director of Pediatric Obesity an...

A recent audit of New Orleans restaurants has discovered that the rate of shrimp authenticity has declined over the last year. SeaD Consulting diners ordered shrimp dishes at 44 restaurants, and of those, 11 served imported shrimp. Chief Operating Officer Erin Williams says of those 11, nine of them misrepresented the ...

A person was killed in the shooting of a Shreveport Police officer early Sunday morning. Police responded to a call about an altercation outside a downtown bar on North Spring Street. Tim Huck is the business owner who alerted police and witnessed the event. He said four people were fighting in an alley next to the bus...

When the 2026 LSU baseball season ended, LSU head coach Jay Johnson had to get started in putting together a new outfield. It appears Johnson has completed construction of his new outfield, as Oregon's starting right fielder, Angel Laya, has committed to LSU. Laya received Freshman All-American honors from both Perfect...

One legal analyst says the 16-count indictment against Attorney General Liz Murrill is going nowhere. Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino who says the best evidence to support his legal opinion is that the Louisiana State Supreme Court issued a stay in the indictment less than 24 hours an Orleans Parish Grand ...

LSU-Alexandria breaks ground on its new 43-million-dollar Health Education Campus. University officials say it's a transformational project that will address the shortage of nurses and allied health professionals. "This project represents exactly what a public university should do," Chancellor Paul Coreil sai...

The Louisiana Supreme Court has issued a stay of the 16-count indictment against Attorney General Liz Murrill. It took only a few hours for the state's highest court to react to an Orleans Parish grand jury's decision to charge Murrill with eight counts of public intimidation and eight counts of malfeasance in office, ...

Your Fourth of July cookout may be slightly more expensive than last year, according to a survey done by the American Farm Bureau Federation. The study found the average cookout basket with summer staples like cheeseburgers, chicken breasts, strawberries, potato salad and dessert to feed 10 people costs around $73.82, ...

Lafayette chef Kris Allen was named the new King of Louisiana Seafood at this year's Louisiana Seafood Cook-Off earlier this week. To win the crown, Allen used modern techniques to highlight a classic crab-stuffed flounder. Allen says seafood has always been part of his life. "My dad was a shrimper, so at a very y...