According to the C-D-C, Louisiana is tied with South Carolina for the highest flu activity in the country. State health officers Doctor Joe Kanter says Louisiana loses between 500 and a thousand lives to flu every year….
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Those at highest risk due to the flu are the elderly, those with significant underlying medical conditions, and immune-compromised individuals.

The governor’s office has announced it has allocated the 146-million dollars it received from the federal government to help homeowners who were struggling to pay their mortgage because of the Covid pandemic. The state office of community development chief operating officer, Ginger Moses, says the program offered a lifeline to nearly eight-thousand households…
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The Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal will hear Caddo Parish Sheriff candidate Henry Whitehorn’s appeal after a judge ruled a new election should take place after it appeared Whitehorn won by one vote…
cut 1 (31) “….I’m Brooke Thorington”

State Police are trying to determine what happened on Saturday night after a man died after tased by a police officer. Officers were patrolling Shreveport’s Broadmoor area, because of a recent rise in burglaries. L-S-P officers say they approached a man on a bicycle who fled and once caught was uncooperative and tased to be taken into a custody. He died a short time later.