Under pressure from the Legislature, the state’s top school board Wednesday morning approved a revised funding request that includes $800 pay raises for teachers and…
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The plan is to allow Louisiana adults to use their cell phones to make wagers on sporting events and companion bills are moving through the…
An additional 2 to 4 inches of rainfall are possible. Source: New feed
Construction could begin in early 2022 on a second building in the @Highland development, which would add up to 240 apartments and 25,000 square feet…
Lee Michael Berg launched his first jewelry store in Cortana Mall in 1978, about two years after it opened. The former Zale’s senior vice president’s…
A car parked at the neighboring house was also damaged by the heat of the blaze. Source: New feed
The father of the suspect in the fatal shooting of an Elvis Presley impersonator has been arrested in New Orleans, the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office…
The announcement caught the attention of Dutchtown High School junior Sydney Hubbard early last fall — something about a way students could learn how to…
After being alerted by The Advocate that a Baton Rouge elementary school was collecting Chromebooks from virtual students with almost a month of school left…
With winds up to 140 mph, a tornado that carved a nine-mile path through St. Landry Parish on April 9 into the next morning killed…
Amid the important national debate over how to reform policing so that it protects and serves all citizens, this should be a starting point: Most…
The former academic leader of the University of South Carolina, William F. Tate IV, makes some history as the first African American president of LSU. …
In an interview with WAFB, friends and family of Christin and Brandon Parker speak out following their death. Source: New feed
If you’re stuck in a mud flat or find yourself too deep in the shallows of the Assumption Parish swamps, sheriff’s deputies have a new…
In the months leading up to a corruption probe into the Baton Rouge Police Department narcotics division, seven of its detectives later accused of wrongdoing…