Attorney General Jeff Landry is announcing some of the details important to a legal settlement with several pharmaceutical firms over the manufacturing and marketing of opioids. Louisiana’s share of the 26-billion-dollar agreement is just over 325-million-dollars. Landry considers this settlement another step towards assisting Louisiana in curbing the damage done by opioids in Louisiana.
A crisis that Landry indicates has been all too deadly.
Governor John Bel Edwards traveled to Baton Rouge General Hospital to receive his annual flu shot and Pfizer Covid-19 booster shot Wednesday. He’s urging Louisiana residents to follow his example,
Edwards says it’s been several years since the Bayou State experienced a bad outbreak of flu.
The governor says despite the deadly flu season four years ago, last year’s was not as bad because of some of the steps taken to ease the spread of COVID.
Baton Rouge commercial pilot and Navy veteran Luke Mixon is running for Senate in an effort to unseat the state’s junior senator John Kennedy in 2022. Mixon says he’s frustrated with the partisan politics in DC and Louisiana is not getting their fair share of natural disaster assistance. Even though he’s running as a democrat, Mixon says he feels most voters are more concerned with the candidate versus party.
After responding to a residence for a medical emergency Wednesday night police found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound. Lafayette Corporal Bridgette Dugas says they are now investigating a homicide at the Essie Street home.
The gunshot victim was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead. Dugas says they are asking for anyone with any information to come forward and assist them with the investigation.