Lawmakers will return to the Capitol Tuesday for a historic veto override session. Matt Doyle has the story…
Governor John Bel Edwards announced the first batch of winners of the “Shot at a Million” lottery. The $100,000 cash winner is 82-year-old New Orleanian Clement Dasalla and 17-year old Skyla Degrasse of Hammond won the first scholarship.
AARP’s latest dashboard shows less than 6-percent of Louisiana nursing homes meet the industry benchmark for staff vaccinations. AARP State Director Denise Botcher says the benchmark is having 75-percent of staff fully vaccinated.
In Louisiana, only 41-percent of nursing home staff are fully vaccinated compared to 79-percent of residents.
Former Governor Edwin Edwards’ funeral will be private on Sunday due to the Delta variant of COVID cases. It will be streamed live by Louisiana Public Broadcasting though. Edwards’ biographer Leo Honeycutt says the Cajun Prince would have preferred an open service…
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Edwards will lie in state at the capitol on Saturday, it is open to the public from 10 until 7.