The state health department announces it’s holding a series of mass COVID vaccination events. Brooke Thorington has more.
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A Baton Rouge judge had ordered Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry to release relevant information about a sexual harassment investigation involving Pat Magee, who heads up the A-G’s criminal division. The judge ruled against Landry who sued an Advocate news reporter seeking that the records be released.

Thirty-three Republican lawmakers have signed a letter that asks Governor John Bel Edwards to lift COVD businesses restrictions and the mask mandate. House Republican delegation chairman Blake Miguez says the mandate leads to nonsensical situations wherein people wear a mask into a restaurant, sit down to eat, take it off, then put it back on to leave…
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At a press conference earlier this week, Edwards said it’s too soon to drop the mask mandate.

Three farmers will be inducted into the Louisiana Agriculture Hall of Distinction during a ceremony tonight co-hosted by the Louisiana Radio Network. LRN Farm Director Don Molino says one of the inductees is longtime Louisiana Farm Bureau President Ronnie Anderson…
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Tonight’s other two inductees are south Louisiana sugarcane farmer John Gay and Jakie Loewer of Acadia Parish, who has served on the Louisiana Rice Research Board for 12 years.