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Wildcat Bluff Discovery Center to host Earth Day event at Don Harrington Discovery Center
Wildcat Bluff Discovery Center is hosting its annual Earth Day event on Saturday, April 20. Due to the expected weather forecast for the day, the event has been moved to the Don Harrington Discovery Center.
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State Inspector General: Ware Youth Center a safe, secure environment suitable juvenile detention center
BATON ROUGE — The Office of State Inspector General concluded that the Ware Youth Center, the Red River Parish youth detention center with inmates from across the state, to be "a safe and secure environment suitable to house juveniles who have entered Louisiana’s juvenile justice system" in a report released Thursday."During nine different visits to Ware, OIG investigators observed clean, safe and secure facilities and professional staff. Over the past three years, as part of its...
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Fight the rising tide of hunger
With food insecurity worsening, the Sustainable Development Goal of zero-hunger by 2030 seems all but abandoned. The Food Security Information Network (FSIN)—an alliance between the United Nations (UN) and several development groups—reports that 282 million people around the world faced acute hunger in 2023, largely because of conflict and the climate crisis. That this was the fifth consecutive year of a rise in the number of people facing acute hunger is evidence of a deeply skewed food...