For the first time since March 28th, the state has fewer than one-thousand COVID-19 patients in the hospital. Governor John Bel Edwards…
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As of Wednesday’s Department of Health report, there are 931 COVID-19 hospitalizations. 110 patients are on ventilators, down from a peak of 571 on April 4th.

Today at 10:00 NOAA releases its hurricane forecast for 2020. We’ve already seen one named storm. State Climatologist Barry Keim says Tropical Storm Arthur grazed North Carolina’s coast before heading back out to sea this week…
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Colorado State researchers have already called for an above-normal season.

The House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to discuss a budget for next fiscal year, but time is running out to approve a spending plan before the regular session ends…
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Former longtime Angola prison warden Burl Cain has been named as the new head of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The 77-year-old received national attention for dramatically reducing inmate violence at Angola, but he abrutly retired in 2015 as he was the subject of multiple investigations looking into whether prison employees did work on his personal home and used public funds for personal use. Cain has denied any wrondoing.