The author of the tort reform bill that was passed in the regular session says they’ll have to fix an unintended error in the legislation during the current special session….
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Louisiana reported eleven more COVID-19 deaths yesterday to bring the statewide total to 2,825. The number of cases also went up by 330 to 42,816. But hospitalizations and patients needing ventilators continues to decline. The number of COVID-19 patients in the hospital is down to 575, 74 of them are on ventilators.

After making landfall near Grand Isle yesterday, Cristobal is now a tropical depression in northeast Louisiana. Cristobal brought street flooding, high winds and scattered power outages to southeast Louisiana. State Climatologist Barry Keim says it made a little history, as its the second earliest named storm to make landfall in Louisiana…
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Cristobal will not result in the need for disaster food stamps, but the Secretary for the Department of Children and Family Services, Marketa Garner Walters, says it’s still a good idea to pre-register, so you ready to receive them after a storm causes significant damage…
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Go to D-C-F-S-dot-la-dot-gov, backslahs d-snap to register.