A 13-year-old from Algiers has been identified as the boy who drowned in Grand Isle waters over Memorial Day weekend, less than two weeks after he graduated from eighth grade in New Orleans.Â
A bill to help Louisiana parents afford private school cleared its last major hurdle in the state Legislature Tuesday despite lingering uncertainty about the program's cost and disagreement about what requirements should be placed on private schools that receive public money.
Authorities were searching for an 8-month-old baby who was kidnapped after his mother was sexually assaulted, beaten and left behind in LaPlace early Tuesday morning.Â
