Tomorrow is the last day to ship a Christmas present via USPS First-Class Mail and have it arrive in time for Christmas. USPS spokesperson Albert Ruiz says the priority mail deadline is December 19th and postal workers are doing overtime hours to meet the massive demand this year.
Ruiz says they’ve seen a large increase in packages compared to years past.
On his monthly talk show Governor Edwards said it’s past time everyone accepts President-elect Joe Biden won the November election. Edwards bemoaned what he called a “fruitless” effort by some Republican Attorneys General, including Jeff Landry, to challenge the legitimacy of votes in key battleground states.
The US Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by the Texas AG challenging those votes.
After 12-years in prison on a life without parole sentence for marijuana, Fate Winslow walked free from Angola Wednesday. 12 years ago he was arrested for selling two bags of marijuana to an undercover officer in Shreveport. Innocence Project New Orleans executive Director Jee Park says they’ve been working for about a year to overturn the sentence due to ineffective counsel.
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Winslow is the third individual IPNO has freed this year through its new Unjust Punish Project.
The FDA advisory committee meets today to discuss whether to give emergency approval to a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna. Assistant Dean for Translational Research at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, Doctor Lucio Miele, says side effects have been reported with both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines…