August 2021

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Cooling centers have opened in Mississippi’s capital city as a heat wave scorches temperatures in several states in the South and Midwest.

Heat advisories Monday cover parts of 10 states, including Kansas, Missouri and Illinois in the Midwest, according to the National Weather Service.

In the South, parts of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Mississippi were under heat advisories, as were slivers of Alabama, Florida, Tennessee and Kentucky.

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana’s state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley has received a positive job evaluation after his first year on the job, which included responding to the coronavirus pandemic.

The state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education reviewed Brumley’s performance in a closed-door session.

The Advocate reports the board gave Brumley a 3.05 rating out of a possible 4, according to the superintendent’s office. That puts him in the effective/proficient category, the second highest of four used to evaluate public school teachers and other educators.

MATHEWS (AP) — A southeast Louisiana sheriff’s deputy shot and wounded a man who was pointing a rifle at him late Sunday, the sheriff said early Monday.

Louisiana State Police are investigating the shooting by a Lafourche Parish deputy, as is standard for shootings involving local departments.

Deputies were told that a man with a rifle was creating a disturbance at a home in Lockport, Sheriff Craig Webre said in a news release.

While they were on their way, he said, they were told he had left in a truck.