BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT | Staff writer For 70 years, the family of Cpl. Lawrence Brown believed he had died fighting in the Korean War, but they had no body to give them certainty or closure. Recently, Brown's remains were identified through DNA testing. On Saturday, his surviving family members were finally able to lay him to rest, after a ceremony in which Brown was posthumously presented with many medals. Here's his story. Thanks to COVID, teachers and students haven't had a normal first day of school in two years. But when classes start soon, it will mostly be without the disruptions of masks, quarantines, and virtual learning. Will that normalcy last? Check out this story to see what schools are doing this year, and what the data says about whether the virus could throw a wrench in the works again. There's been a tragic trend in Louisiana of more small kids being wounded or dying because of unsecured guns. On Friday, it happened again; a four-year-old found a gun underneath a car seat and fatally shot himself, deputies say. Yesterday, the sheriff's office said the child's father was arrested, and faces charges of negligent homicide. |