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Juneteenth kickoff
Top-scoring students qualify for new award
BY PATRICK WALL Staff writer
Louisiana will cover the full price of college tuition for a small group of stellar students, under newly passed legislation — but it won’t give more money to thousands of students whose state scholarships cover only part of their tuition bill. Top-scoring high schoolers will qualify for a new “Excellence” award through the state’s TOPS scholarship program under House Bill 77, which the Louisiana Legislature passed last week and Gov. Jeff Landry is expected to sign. Starting this fall, the award will provide up to $12,000 per year to students who attend a public university, or roughly the annual cost of tuition and fees at LSU’s main campus, and up to $8,500 for students at eligible private universities. To qualify, students must score 31 or higher out of 36 on the ACT and earn 3.5 or above grade-point average. Fewer than 900 students annually are expected to get the award, or less than 2% of first-year
STAFF PHOTOS By BRAD BOWIE
Susannah Johnson Malbreaux, president of the SWLA Juneteenth Committee, center, and Lafayette Mayor-President Monique Boulet raise a Juneteenth flag as Abram Freeman, president of the Juneteenth Association of Louisiana, left, and others watch Thursday during Juneteenth opening ceremonies and a flag raising at Lafayette City Hall. Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Susannah Johnson Malbreaux, left, introduces Alexandra Gramby, the nation’s reigning Miss Juneteenth, during the ceremony.
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Lawsuit: CVS texts manipulated patients Customers received messages urging them to oppose bill
BY ASHLEY WHITE
Staff writer
CVS improperly used Louisiana customers’ personal information when it sent text messages urging them to ask their legislators to oppose a bill that would have affected the company, a new lawsuit claims. Law firm Broussard, David and Moroux filed the lawsuit last week in St. Martin Parish and is seeking class-action status. “Patient information is meant for health care, not political manipulation,” attorney Jerome H. Moroux said in a statement. “No one goes
ä See CVS, page 4A
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Trump considers U.S. attack on Iran President says decision to come within two weeks
his mind within two weeks on whether the U.S. military will get directly involved in the conflict, seeking to keep open the door to diplomacy on Tehran’s nuclear program. “Based on the fact that there’s BY SAM MEDNICK, a substantial chance of negotiaNATALIE MELZER tions that may or may not take and JON GAMBRELL place with Iran in the near fuAssociated Press ture, I will make my decision BEERSHEBA, Israel — Israel and whether or not to go within Iran exchanged more attacks on the next two weeks,” Karoline Thursday as President Donald Leavitt, the White House press Trump said he would make up secretary, told reporters, read-
ing out Trump’s statement. Trump has been weighing whether to attack Iran by striking its well-defended Fordo uranium enrichment facility, which is buried under a mountain and widely considered to be out of reach of all but America’s “bunker-buster” bombs. Earlier in the day, Israel’s defense minister threatened Iran’s supreme leader after Iranian missiles crashed into a major hospital in southern Israel and hit residential buildings near
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Tel Aviv, wounding at least 240 people. As rescuers wheeled patients out of the smoldering hospital, Israeli warplanes launched their latest attack on Iran’s nuclear program. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz blamed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for Thursday’s barrage and said the military “has been instructed and knows that in order to achieve all of its goals, this man
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