According to the latest data from the State Department of Education, less than half of Louisiana students between kindergarten through 3rd grade are reading at their grade level.
A special guest caught up with lawmakers on Thursday, May 19, as Rev. Jesse Jackson met with the Legislative Black Caucus at the Louisiana State Capitol.
The House Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations unanimously advanced a bill Thursday that would protect state employees who are legally treated with medical marijuana.
Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed many bills into law from the 2022 Legislative Session. The latest round of new acts was announced on Thursday, May 19.
At $.99, the Chili Cheese Burrito was cost-friendly and tucked between a lightly warmed flour tortilla and filled with a generous helping of creamy beef chili and cheddar cheese that blended into a cacophony of flavors that, unfortunately, Gen Z has yet to know.
“When you hear that your kid has cancer, the first thing you think of is ‘oh my gosh, is she going to make it, am I going to see her get married? Am I going to see her graduate?’ All that runs through your head."
After a short debate in the Louisiana House of Representatives, the author of a bill to charge a woman with murder if she gets an abortion asked to put it back on the calendar.
Edwards, who spoke at a Rotary Club meeting in Baton Rouge this afternoon, acknowledged that he’s signed previous anti-abortion legislature before but that previous bills he’s signed never set to criminalize mothers.
Louisiana Right to Life, along with some other prominent religious organizations, says they will not support House Bill 813 that is heading to the House floor this Thursday.
Family, friends, and the community of south La. said their final goodbyes to Sgt. Nick Tullier, a deputy with EBRSO who passed away nearly six years after being ambushed in 2016.
Cpl. Nick Tullier, an East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputy who defied the odds after being badly injured in an ambush shooting in 2016, has died, according to his family.
Mandeville Police said an Amber Alert has been canceled after two children were recovered safely and their alleged abductor arrested in Crystal Springs, Miss.
The La. Leg. Auditor reported it found the La. Dept. of the Treasury did not consistently follow its policies and procedures for all grants awarded through the Main Street Recovery Program.
Police say that the suspect took the victim around 8 a.m. in the area of North Oak Street and West Dakota Street and the incident was reported to campus police at 10:52 a.m.
Hanna Barker, the Natchitoches woman accused in connection with the July 2018 burning death of her infant son, has accepted a plea bargain on new charges.
Laine Hardy was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on a charge of intercepting communications. He was later released on his own recognizance.
A witness who saw others attempting to resuscitate a 3-year-old girl fatally shot in the French Quarter on Tuesday (April 27) said it was 'the worst thing I've seen in this city.'
