The Louisiana Department of Education last week rated three Iberville Parish schools as eligible for becoming demonstration schools for the Positive Behavioral Support (PBS) program aimed at improving discipline and learning.

Iberville Sheriff's deputies responding to a traffic accident on La. 1 arrested a Port Allen Woman on a 6th offense of driving while intoxicated, Chief Criminal Deputy Stephen Engolio said Monday.

Black smoke billowing in the background, students at evacuated E. J. Gay School Monday afternoon as emergency responders worked to extinguish a fire in the cab of an 18-wheel tanker truck carrying 8,300 gallons of gasoline, Major Johnny Blanchard of the Iberville Sheriff's Office said.

Walter Cronkite, the CBS News anchor who earned the reputation as ‘The Most Trusted Man in America’, died Friday. He was 92. Following with others presenting tributes to the broadcasting icon, Post South now presents a rare find: Cronkite reporting about turmoil in Plaquemine.

The report, from the first 30-minute installment of the CBS Evening News in September 1963, focused on the racial turmoil in Plaquemine, with footage from Railroad Avenue and Court Street. To view the segment (courtesy of CBS news and youtube.com), click on the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC9WrSLjM-8&feature=PlayList&p=4DE8B4DACDA85A42&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=27. The segment is featured at 4:45 into the telecast – after a commercial from Paxon Cigarettes.

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