State Police Trooper Jacob Brown has been arrested for allegedly use of excessive and unjustifiable force during an encounter with a Black man in Ouachita Parish in May of 2019. Trooper Michael Reichhardt says a lawsuit filed by the victim in October started the investigation…
A law office in Monroe has identified the victim as Aaron Bowman. They claim Bowman was dragged to the ground and beaten senselessly during the arrest.
It looks likely that we will be vaccinating frontline healthcare workers in Louisiana as early as early next week, but Governor Edwards warns it will take until at least late spring before the general public gets a shot at the vaccine…
Edwards says stopping mitigation measures now would be like fumbling at the one yard line.
An AARP report from October to mid-November shows 476 new cases among nursing home staff in Louisiana and 17-percent have a PPE shortage. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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We’re now just 11 COVID hospitalizations shy of the peak we hit in late July during the 2nd wave. This third wave appears primed to blasted right back that as there are currently no signs that currently levels of spread of slowing down as the state reports another near 3,000 cases today.