Governor Edwards will announce whether or not the state will reduce COVID public health restrictions today at 1 PM. Matt Doyle has the story.
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WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge is reporting a State Police Trooper received a 50-hour suspension for turning off his body camera, kicking a handcuffed black male and dragging him by his shackles. That man is Ronald Greene, who died as a result of the encounter he had with State Police in the Monroe area in 2019. Greene’s family says the Trooper should be fired.

An LSU study that looked at roadway travel statistics in ten states before and during the pandemic found that overall traffic volume decreased by 48-percent and at the height of the lockdown as much as 65-percent. LSU Civil Engineering Professor Brian Wolshon (Wool-shon) says they also saw coronavirus cases rise when traffic picked up…
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The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is reminding crawfish connoisseurs to clean up properly after your boil to preserve other sea life. DEQ spokesperson Jean Kelly says never place shells or boil water into a ditch or waterway because it can seriously harm or even kill fish.
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When you dispose of boil water and/or seasoned shells into a storm drain or ditch it goes directly to a lake, river, or stream