About 98-thousand Louisianans received ineligible unemployment benefits last year totaling $405 million according to a Legislative Auditors report. Brooke Thorington explains
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Multiple media outlets are reporting that Hush money was allegedly demanded from a friend of Gloria Scott, who has accused former LSU running back Derius Guice of sexual harassment when she worked as a security guard in the Superdome in 2017. But Scott is denying that anyone asked LSU for financial compensation after the alleged incident.

The state health department reports 126 people have tested positive in Louisiana for the coronavirus despite being fully vaccinated. State Health Officer Doctor Joe Kanter says no vaccine is 100-percent effective, but,,,
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But Kanter says the three vaccines available remain 100-percent effective at preventing serious illness and deaths.

House Education Chairman Ray Garofalo has authored a bill that would ban K-through-12 schools from teaching “Divisive Concepts” like the United States or the State of Louisiana is institutionally or systemically racist. Garofalo says the legislation should not be controversial…
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The bill has received pushback from those who advocate teaching that the US, through slavery, was founded on racism and has maintained a legacy of systemic racism.