The third surge of the pandemic seems to be subsiding in Louisiana, but state health officials warn our percent positivity rate on COVID tests statewide is still over ten percent. Governor John Bel Edwards says the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients has fallen below 18-hundred, but…
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This weekend we will likely surpass the 8,000 total death mark from COVID-19.
New Orleans’ Mardi Gras parades may be canceled but you can still catch a hint of carnival at City Park starting February 7th. It’s Floats in the Oaks, a drive-through experience where floats from major parades will be displayed like they would the park’s famed Christmas decorations. Delgado baseball coach Joe Scheurmann came up with the idea and it caught fire once he put it on Facebook.
A controversial figure has joined the race for the 5th Congressional District: a man who was convicted of murdering his 8-year-old stepson with the help of the child’s mother but is awaiting a retrial in the case. Brooke Thorington has more.
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Broadcast legend Larry King is dead at 87. King made his name in New York but had a little known four-year stint in Shreveport where he did freelance writing, worked PR, and even was the broadcaster for the short-lived Shreveport Streamer, the World Football League time that set up shop in northwest Louisiana for a spell.