A second miner has been found dead following Monday’s roof collapse at the Avery Island salt mine. Don Molino has more…
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On his monthly call-in show, Governor Edwards says the rollout of the first coronavirus vaccine doses to states has gone smoothly. Thousands of hospital workers have received the vaccine this week. The governor hopes to begin vaccinations in nursing homes around December 28th as the Moderna vaccine is expected to receive federal approval later this week.

The House and Senate Insurance committees are meeting today discussing insurance issues from the active hurricane season that just concluded. Deputy Commissioner for the Office of Consumer Services, Jeffrey Zewe, says they’ve received over 700 consumer complaints from hurricane victims and a lot of the calls early on were over the amount of the hurricane deductible…
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Zewe says they still have 250 disaster complaints open.

An LSU grad student has named a previously unnamed wasp after former LSU quarterback Joe Burrow. LSU AgCenter Entomologist Nathan Lord says this particular wasp was recently discovered in Asia…
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Lord says the wasp as a tiger stripe coloration pattern on its body.