7,600 unemployment claimants received notices that they’d been overpaid due to a technical error with a Louisiana Workforce Commission vendor. Jeff Palermo has the story.
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The state reports 500 new COVID-19 cases out of just over 9000 tests. Total fatalities increase to 5,143, up by 17. Statewide hospitalizations are at the lowest point since June at 663, down by 15 since yesterday, with 106 of those patients on ventilators.
Haunted Houses will be allowed to open this year but under strict permitting requirements and pandemic health restrictions. Fire Marshal Butch Browning says each facility will have guidelines to follow.
To open each facility will have to check in with the state on OpenSafely.la.gov to get guidance on what they need to do to begin.
Hurricane Laura had a substantial effect on the agriculture industry and Monroe pecan farmer Abraham Lincoln says his nuts were severely impacted. The damage to his nuts is even more detrimental since this year appeared to be a promising harvest. Lincoln says he invested extra care into the crop that would have been harvested by the first of October.
Hurricane season also hasn’t been friendly to Georgia, the nation’s largest pecan producer, as they’ve been impacted by Hurricane Sally.