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Education department defers to local systems on graduation requirements
Mon, 04/06/2020 - 3:24pm
The Louisiana Department of Education has announced local school systems would have broad leeway in deciding whether seniors are ready to graduate.
UL researchers leading statewide project to enlist COVID-19 volunteers
Mon, 04/06/2020 - 3:22pm
University of Louisiana at Lafayette researchers are helping bolster the state’s health care system as it grapples with an ever-growing number of coronavirus cases.
Burn ban still in effect
Mon, 04/06/2020 - 3:16pm
State Fire Marshal H. “Butch” Browning, in collaboration with Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, remind that the statewide burn ban implemented on March 25 remains in effect.
Chief: First nights of curfew quiet; no more ‘siren’ warning
Sun, 04/05/2020 - 1:31pm
Police Chief Jimmy Broussard reported that the first couple of nights of the parishwide curfew were relatively quiet here.