The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Department says 8-year-old Kaesyn Heck and 4-year-old Jax Matthews have been located near Milton, Florida. An Amber Alert was issued for the two boys after they were kidnapped and the car, they were sitting in was also taken by their biological mother. The mother escaped on foot in a wooded area in Santa Rosa County and the children are now in protective custody.
Louisiana is dead last in the 2021 Childhood Report that ranks how well states provide for and protect children during the pandemic. Senator Bill Cassidy says he hasn’t read the report in full but believes it’s weighted towards the lack of internet access for many children and…
The report examines child poverty, child deaths, hunger, dropout rates, and teen pregnancy.
Louisiana moved into Phase Three COVID restrictions today, but health officials warn that doesn’t mean the pandemic is over. Our neighbors in Mississippi and Texas dropped their mask mandates but State Health Officer Dr. Joe Kanter says we won’t be doing the same.
A drug normally used to treat horses, ivermectin is making the rounds on social media as a cure for COVID. Director of Louisiana Poison Control Dr. Mark Ryan says ivermectin was at one time used in hospitals to treat patients when nothing else proved to be effective, but as physicians have found more useful drug therapies the medication has been removed as an option.
Ryan says never try to treat yourself, especially with nonproven drug therapy.