78 LSU students have yet to comply with the school’s new COVID policy of showing proof of vaccination or agree to regular testing for the virus. Failure to do so could result in expulsion. LSU President William Tate says he’s hopeful that the remaining students will comply.
Over the summer Tate indicated that once the vaccine was approved by the FDA on-campus students would be required to be vaccinated or agree to regular testing.
A movie that was set to be filmed in New Orleans has moved to Shreveport due to Hurricane Ida. Sony Line Producer, Wendy Williams, says “Heart of a Lion” follows the life of boxer George Foreman.
She says that will cover a period from the late 50s to the mid-80s. About 15-hundred extras will be hired locally for the movie shoot.
Governor John Bel Edwards says he supports his new Commander of State Police, while federal authorities investigate the cover-up of the 2019 fatal arrest of motorist Ronald Greene. LSP Colonel Lamar Davis announced tough new policies last week, and the Governor says he approves.
Cut 10 (07) “…be a state trooper.”
AARP’s nursing home dashboard in the four-week period ending August 22nd resident COVID cases increased by 463 and staff cases by more than a thousand from the previous four-week period and deaths went from 3 to 49. And because the recording period ended several days before Hurricane Ida AARP Louisiana Associate Director of Advocacy Andrew Muhl says they are worried numbers could increase due to the evacuations of several nursing homes.
Cut 15 (06) “…concerned about it”