The state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education will debate today masks in public schools and whether local school boards have the authority to set their own policy for face coverings in the classroom. Governor Edwards believes his indoor mask mandate covers schools as well. Edwards says the health order protects kids and adults
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The Louisiana Health Department reports over three thousand people are in the hospital suffering from COVID and 91-percent of them are unvaccinated.

The other big topic is Afghanistan. The withdrawal of U-S Troops has resulted in the Taliban taking over the country. Congressman Mike Johnson…
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The White House says it’s working on evacuating Americans and Afghan allies out of the country.

Authorities in northwest Louisiana arrested a man from Acadia Parish after he traveled to West Carroll Parish to have sex with a 13-year-old girl. But Oak Grove Police Chief Lewis Russell says 36-year-old James Regan was actually communicating with an undercover officer and not a teenage girl. He was arrested in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Oak Grove…
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Regan is facing several charges after investigators say they found child porn on his phone.

The state has honored Baton Rouge nurse Carla Brown. She launched a door-to-door campaign to vaccinate as many people as possible after her husband died of COVID. Brown has vaccinated over two thousand people and she says in one of her interactions the wife agreed to be vaccinated and eventually her husband was also persuaded…
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