The flu season is ramping up in the Deep South with the highest number of cases in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. The State Health Department’s Dr. Frank Welch says Louisiana has already hit the CDCs highest criteria of widespread for flu activity. The Influenza A strain can make people extremely sick and can even be fatal…
Vaccines are only 30 percent effective against this particular strain…
The deadline to sign up for health care through the Affordable Care Act has come and gone. Persons need to have health insurance in place for 2018 or pay a penalty. The State Director of Navigators for a Healthy Louisiana Brian Burton says premiums increased for this year, but the government has helped with more subsides, making it more affordable in the long run…
A Governor’s Task Force to study the state’s sexual harassment policies was chosen Friday. The seven member panel was created Friday will look at current polices into all state agencies which are under the direction of the Executive Branch. Their first meeting is Monday. They are required to report back to Governor John Bel Edwards with recommendations no later than March 1st. Their goal is to make sexual harassment policies the same across all offices…
Questions remain surrounding the death of two people found in a St. Landry Parish lake this week. Sheriff Bobby Guidroz says the initial autopsy finds that 21-year-old Lia Ali Kazan of Shreveport and 30-year-old Anthony Michael Murray of Rapides Parish drowned in Lake Dubuisson. Guidroz says they know that Murray kidnapped Kazan in a parking lot of an Alexandria motel and her vehicle ended up in the lake…