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Bill makes coding an alternative to language for scholarship
By KEVIN MCGILL
Mon,06/06/22-2:29PM , 112 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — High school students working to earn free college tuition through Louisiana's TOPS state scholarship program could take computer coding instead of a foreign language under a bill passed Monday amid complaints efforts to revive the French language could be undermined.
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Sens. Mack "Bodi" White, R-Baton Rouge, left; and Eddie Lambert, R-Gonzales, work on the Senate floor on Sunday, June 3, 2018, in Baton Rouge, La. Sen. Eddie Lambert, R- Gonzales, is the sponsor of an amendment that converted a bill doing away with the need for permits to carry concealed weapons into a bill allowing teachers trained in the use of firearms to carry guns on school campuses.(AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte, File)

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Louisiana no-permit gun bill changed to allow armed teachers
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Thu,06/02/22-3:25PM , 102 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Invoking the mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers last week at a Texas elementary school, a panel of Louisiana legislators has converted a bill that would allow people to carry concealed guns without a permit into one allowing trained teachers to carry guns on public school campuses.
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks in Baton Rouge, La., Feb. 1, 2022. A bill to keep transgender women and girls in Louisiana from competing on college and K-12 women’s and girls’ athletic teams won final legislative passage Monday, May 23, 2022, in the state Senate, meaning Edwards, who has been critical of the measure, will have to decide whether to veto it. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)

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Louisiana gov faces decision on transgender athlete bill
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Mon,05/23/22-3:36PM , 2,002 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A bill to keep transgender women and girls in Louisiana from competing on college and K-12 women’s and girls’ athletic teams won final legislative passage Monday in the state Senate, meaning Gov. John Bel Edwards, who has been critical of the measure, will have to decide whether to veto it.
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A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic at the Keystone First Wellness Center in Chester, Pa., Dec. 15, 2021. A federal appeals court is being asked Monday, May 23, 2022, to reconsider its decision allowing the Biden administration to require that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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Opponents of federal vaccine mandate seek rehearing
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Mon,05/23/22-12:54PM , 236 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court is being asked to reconsider its decision allowing the Biden administration to require that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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