This morning, Governor John Bel Edwards rolled up his sleeves for the fifth time to get the latest booster against COVID and is urging you to do the same. Marsanne Golsby has more.
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A Caddo Parish substitute teacher is charged with paying five students cash to bully one. More from Jeff Palermo…:
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Thibodaux Police continue to search for the gunman who fatally shot 15-year-old Jarian Cole from Assumption Parish on Saturday afternoon. Lt. Clint Dempster says Cole was shot multiple times in the back inside a home…
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Dempster says detectives are working around the clock searching for the shooter.
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Dempster would not provide details on why Cole was in Thibodaux. He says it’s a city that’s only had a few murders over the years
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State health officials say ninety percent of the new COVID19 cases in Louisiana are caused by the latest variant of the disease, Omicron BA-FOUR, and BA-FIVE. This morning, Governor John Bel Edwards received the new bivalent COVID booster shot. He says the latest variants are highly transmissible.
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State health officer Dr. Joseph Kanter says people are still dying daily from COVID in Louisiana. Nearly 18-thousand people have died since the beginning of the pandemic.
The Pfizer bivalent COVID shot is available for anyone who is 12 and older and the Moderna bivalent shot is available for anyone who is 18 and older.
Edwards says protection from boosters becomes weaker after a few months.
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This is the fifth COVID shot the governor has received.
He also received a flu shot. It’s available for people who are six months old or older.
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Health officials are concerned that after two mild flu seasons, because of COVID mitigations and mask-wearing, this year’s flu season could be an active one.
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Caddo Parish Sheriff’s deputies arrest a substitute P.E. teacher; accused of encouraging students to bully a classmate. CPSO spokesperson Bia Rolden says detectives became aware of the allegations against 24-year-old Aadrina (uh DREE nuh) Smith, of an incident in late August…:
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Rolden says Smith allegedly paid the five students $5 each to attack their classmate in the gym at North Caddo Elementary Middle School. Three of them actually carried out the request. She says Smith was present and offered the bullied child no help or support…:
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Rolden says once school officials became aware of what happened, they alerted the sheriff’s office who began an investigation. Rolden says it is shocking for a teacher to be a part of school bullying…:
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Smith has terminated and is now charged with 5 counts of contributing to the delinquency of juveniles and malfeasance. Rolden says more arrests may be coming.
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CVS Pharmacies in Louisiana add an extra measure of security against prescription drug thefts; time delay pharmaceutical safes. CVS Chief Policy Officer Tom Moriarty says criminals steal drugs from pharmacies and sell them illicitly on the street; leading to higher crime and even overdose deaths. He says using time-lock technology will discourage that…:
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Moriarty says time delay drug safes are now in place in all 133 CVS locations across Louisiana. He says the technology has been proven effective in reducing drug theft…:
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Moriarty says, in stores with a working time-lock drug vault, thieves are limited to only whatever product is out on the counters from the day’s business. He says once thieves determine a pharmacy has a time-lock drug vault, they rarely attempt a second theft. Moriarty says CVS doesn’t do this to reduce their pharmaceutical losses; they do it to prevent drugs from being sold on the street for ill-gotten cash…:
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