7:30 AM Newscast

Shocking news out of the Saints’ rookie camp this weekend as quarterback Derek Carr has retired. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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May is National Foster Care Month, and the Department of Children and Family Services is using the occasion to spotlight the need for foster caregivers. Secretary David Matlock says the number of foster families in Louisiana has gone up in recent years, but they could always use more.

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AARP is urging the House to reject a Senate bill that has advanced to the lower chamber. Andrew Muhl with the AARP of Louisiana says Senate Bill would effectively let nursing homes off the hook for damages caused by abuse and neglect. Muhl points to the incident involving Bob Dean, who evacuated residents in nursing homes he owned to an unsanitary warehouse during Hurricane Ida, in which seven people died.

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The bill was written by Shreveport Senator Thomas Pressly, co-authored by Shreveport Senator Alan Seabaugh. Seabaugh says the bill is not intended to rewrite law, but to clarify existing law he says was always intended to include nursing homes in the Medical Malpractice Act.

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