The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is meeting and a spirited debate over face coverings in classrooms is expected. Governor John Bel Edwards believes his indoor mask mandate covers schools. But 63 House Republicans penned a letter to BESE asking them to allow school boards to make the decision locally. Alexandria Representative Lance Harris…
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But Edwards says masks are necessary to keep kids safe from the coronavirus and schools open…
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Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry issued a legal opinion earlier this month that BESE, not the governor, has the final say on mask policies for schools. Several anti-mask parents are at the meeting waiting to speak.

An Acadia Parish man is in custody after driving more than 200 miles to have sex with who he believed was a 13-year-old girl…
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Louisiana Healthcare Connections has awarded 25-thousand dollars to Baton Rouge nurse Carla Brown who has vaccinated over two thousand people after losing her husband to COVID-19. Governor Edwards says the state health department has started an initiative in honor of Brown…
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