Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says Louisiana Farm Bureau and Progressive will reduce their auto insurance rates by eight and two percent, respectively. Donelon says both companies have been dropping lowering their premiums
A federal judge in New Orleans rejects a request by ten southeast Louisiana bar owners to stop the statewide order that closes bars. It’s another in a string of losses for those challenging things like the mask mandate or bar closures in court. Loyola Law Professor Dane Ciolino says…
A new saliva test for COVID-19, known as SalivaDirect, gets the thumbs up from the FDA. The new test is being called a game changer and LSU Health New Orleans infectious disease expert Dr. Catherine O’Neal sees value in using the tests for communal living settings.
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Researchers at Yale say they expect labs will only charge about $10 per sample with this test.
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring two tropical waves in the Atlantic, and both waves have the potential of developing into named storms over the next five days. State Climatologist Barry Keim says it remains to be seen if these systems will reach the Gulf of Mexico, but conditions are ripe for them to become a real threat.