Many families with children under the age of 17 are seeing their first monthly payment of the expanded child tax credit in either their bank account or mailbox today…
cut 7 (11) “…potentially” That’s Johnathan Stoltz a partner at Metairie accounting firm Malcolm M. Dienes. He says the new credit is $3,600 for children under six and $3,000 for ages 6 to 17.

The Manning Passing Academy returns to the Nicholls State campus today after being canceled last year because of COVID-19. Nicholls athletic director Jonathan Terrell says the annual camp put on by the Manning family welcomes over one-thousand aspiring high school quarterbacks and receivers…
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A preliminary report from the CDC estimates Louisiana saw a 47 percent increase in overdose deaths in 2020. Matt Doyle has the story.
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The state reported 19-hundred new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. That’s the largest single-day increase since February.