Governor Edwards is in Washington DC asking for urgent federal assistance for residents impacted by hurricanes since 2020 along with other natural disasters. Brooke Thorington explains.
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A phone number set up to take calls from families seeking Disaster food stamps was overwhelmed yesterday making it difficult for many Ida storm victims to apply. DCFS assistant secretary Shavana Howard says they were receiving 250 to 350 calls per second. DCFS says they have addressed the issue.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and 23 of his fellow attorneys general is calling on the President to reverse his plan to require large private-sector companies to mandate the COVID vaccine to their employees. Landry says Americans should have choices, but Governor John Bel Edwards says…
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A Ruston private school is being sued by the parents of a former student who alleges being victimized by bullies for months. Attorney Wes Bearden says the abuse his clients’ son sustained while attending Cedar Creek School went on for more than eight months, and was both physical and psychological.
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Cedar Creek says as soon as they became aware of the bullying, the school launched an investigation that resulted in the expulsion of five students.