Governor John Bel Edwards expects the state will begin COVID vaccinations within 48 hours of receiving its first shipment. Edwards says health care workers are the first priority…
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Edwards says the first shipment of vaccines could arrive at the end of this week, 39-thousand of them, 40-thousand more vaccines could arrive the following week.

Data from the U-S Census Bureau shows the marriage rate in Louisiana has fallen from 17.6 in 2009 to 14.1 in 2019. LSU Health New Orleans Professor of Clinical Psychiatry Doctor Richard Costa says many millennials are not getting hitched after watching their parents get divorced…
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The Census Bureau says the marriage rate has also fallen nationally, along with the divorce rate in Louisiana and across the country.

The state high school football championships are moving from New Orleans to Natchitoches and the nine title games will be played at Turpin Stadium from December 27th to the 30th. LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine says the association’s executive committee made this difficult decision over concerns fans might not be allowed inside the Superdome…
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Turpin Stadium’s capacity is 15,500 so Bonine expects to sell a maximum of 4,250 tickets per game.

The Louisiana Department of Education says 26-hundred of its teachers and principals have participated in workshops to help provide better virtual instruction to students…
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Assistant Superintendent of Training and Learning, Doctor Jessica Chaisson, says the department has offered two series of workshops, a three-part online training series and the other is a series of webinars to enhance a teacher’s digital learning skills with the help from Google.