Restaurant owners are asking Senator Kennedy to refill Restaurant Revitalization Fund again because many Louisiana restaurants failed to get assistance. Brooke Thorington has more.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators and Republican state Attorneys General are challenging the President’s COVID vaccine mandate for private businesses. Kevin Gallagher reports how that legal battle may play out…:
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A 36-year-old man sought for a triple homicide in Shreveport is dead after fleeing to northeast Louisiana. The latest from Dave Brannen.
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Restaurant owners in Louisiana are calling on Senator John Kennedy to replenish the Restaurant Revitalization Fund that closed more than 100 days ago. Kennedy supported the $120 billion grant program last year but so far isn’t on board this year. New Orleans Restaurant Owner Neal Bodenheimer (Bo-den-heimer) says close to three-thousand Louisiana establishments that applied were not funded.
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John Stubbs, with Jewel in the South, says his New Orleans restaurant was starting to build back their business after 2020 but then the Delta variant and Hurricane Ida erased that progress. He’s dependent on the fund now more than ever.
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Mounting debts from 2020 and higher food prices due to supply chain issues could force even more than the already 90,000 restaurants and bars across the country to shutter.
Stubbs says they’ve asked Kennedy’s staff why he hasn’t joined Senator Bill Cassidy in co-sponsoring the bill to refill the federal relief program.
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According to the Independent Restaurant Coalition 85-percent of restaurants and bars reported they did not receive an RRF grant.
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Thirty U.S. Senators – including John Kennedy and Bill Cassidy – are opposing President Biden’s mandate for COVID shots in the private sector workplace. Republican state Attorneys General are also expected to file lawsuits to block the order taking effect. Loyola Law Professor Dane Ciolino says the plaintiffs will try to seek an injunction to end the order; arguing it’s an overreach for the White House…:
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Biden’s order takes effect January 4th and mandates private companies with 100 or more employees to have their workers get the shots or have weekly COVID tests. Non-compliance would mean federal fines under the auspice of OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Ciolino says the defense will have a credible defense argument…:
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Ciolino says there’s a good chance that a federal judge will issue – at least – a Temporary Restraining Order to delay the Executive Order taking effect, because courts have struck down onerous safety mandates in the past…:
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Early voting for the November 13th election wraps up this Saturday. For Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, turn out thus far has been too light for his taste.
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Ardoin doesn’t have an estimate on turnout thus far, but by the end of the election he expects only about 24 percent of registered voters will bother to have cast their ballots.
Ardoin says when it comes to voter turnout, the largest response is expected in the New Orleans area.
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Topping that activity is the bid by New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell who is seeking election to a second term against more than a dozen challengers, none of them viewed as a threat to her candidacy.
Ardoin is hoping for a better than expected turnout despite the lack of hotly contested races around the state since the state has done a lot of advertising, noting the importance of the constitutional amendments on the ballot.
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The man sought for a domestic triple-homicide in Shreveport overnight Wednesday is dead after fleeing east from the scene into Franklin Parish where police caught up with him at an apartment complex early Thursday afternoon. Sheriff Kevin Cobb told us that’s where they found Barry Rigsby who opened fire on officers and subsequently was killed by return fire.
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Prior to his death, warrants had been issued charging him with three counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of two adults and a 12-year-old boy.
Sheriff Cobb says Rigsby took actions to try and avoid police as they worked to apprehend him Thursday afternoon in Wisner, trying at times to talk him into giving up.
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Cobb says parts of the apartment complex and school children arriving in the area were evacuated from the scene. No police or civilians were injured.
Sheriff Cobb says the investigation includes trying to determine why Rigsby picked a Franklin Parish apartment complex to hold up end and try to keep cops at bay.
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Rigsby’s death came about 12 hours after the victims of the triple-homicide were discovered by a woman performing a welfare check on the victims in Shreveport.
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The Saints will have to rely heavily on their defense if they want to win the NFC South again and make a deep run in the playoffs. New Orleans is fourth in the NFL in points allowed per game and ranked second in stopping the run. Linebacker Demario Davis gives a lot of credit to defensive coordinator Dennis Allen…
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The Saints are 3-and-4, but they have a talented rookie tight end in Kyle Pitts. Pitts has caught 33 passes in seven games. Davis says at six-foot-six 250-pounds, Pitts is a tough player to defend on pass plays…
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Taysom Hill was a full participant in practice on Thursday as it seems he has recovered from a concussion and puts him in position to start on Sunday against Atlanta.
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ULM will visit Texas State tomorrow in San Marcos. The Warhawks are coming off a 59-28 loss to Appalachian State. Coach Terry Bowden says you can’t turn the ball over five times and expect to beat a team like the Mountaineers…
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Starting quarterback Chandler Rogers didn’t finish the game against App State, but Bowden expects he’ll play Saturday versus the Bobcats…
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