Police are searching for the driver of a Ram pickup truck who struck a bicyclist in St. Landry Parish Sunday morning and fled the scene. State Police Trooper Thomas Gossen says 24-year old Ryan Fontenot was struck initially by the truck and run off the road, then a second vehicle struck and killed Fontenot. Gossen says Fontenot likely would still be alive today had the driver of the first vehicle not left the scene.
68 percent of Louisianans support decriminalizing marijuana use and possession according to a new poll, a nine percent increase from last year. JMC Analytics pollster John Couvillon says support for legalization cuts across all partisan, racial, and gender lines.
The only demographic group that consistently opposes legalization is those over the age of 65.
Congresswoman-elect Julia Letlow is imploring every adult in Louisiana to get a vaccine now that everyone 16 and older is eligible. Letlow lost her 41-year-old husband Luke Letlow to COVID in December, just days before he was to be sworn-in to congress.
Cut 6 (08) “…get the vaccine.”
Luke Letlow was diagnosed with COVID in December shortly after he was elected to the 5th Congressional District.
Ochsner Health’s 24-hour vaccine fest is underway in Jefferson Parish at the Shrine on Airline. The event is for residents 18 and older and ends Tuesday at 10 a.m. Ochsner Health Medical Director of Infection Prevention Dr. Katherine Baumgarten says from 7 pm until 7 am you don’t need an appointment.
They even have live music while you wait.