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 ...

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 ...

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, ...