Our neighbors in Texas and Mississippi are dropping their mask mandates but Louisiana won’t be following suit. Matt Doyle has more.
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An Amber Alert remains active for a missing eight-year-old and four-year-old from Ponchatoula. The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s office says Kaesyn Heck and Jax Matthews were inside their father’s vehicle when it was stolen from his home. The vehicle is a maroon 2013 Hyundai Elantra with a busted sunroof.

The state health department reported 582 new cases of COVID-19 today and 21 more deaths. The number of COVID patients in the hospital fell by 41 to 588. Some people have tried a drug used on horses called ivermectin to treat COVID symptoms. But the Director of the Louisiana Poison Control Center Doctor Mark Ryan says taking this drug without oversight from a physician could be dangerous…
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If you are veteran living in southwest Louisiana, an option for free burial is the Southwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery, which was dedicated in Jennings a year ago. Cemetery director Dwayne Guidry says if any vets are interested, just reach out to the Southwest Louisiana Veterans cemetery…
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