About one thousand people filled the Pete Maravich Assembly Center to welcome Kim Mukley back home. The Tickfaw native and Hall of Fame coach is the new LSU women’s basketball coach after leading Baylor to three national championships. LSU women’s hoops reached the Final Four five consecutive times in the mid-2000s, but Mulkey wants to do better…
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A House committee unanimously approves legislation banning the Office of Motor Vehicles from putting a person’s vaccine status on their driver’s license, or requiring vaccination to receive an ID. Gonzales Representative Kathy Edmonston says she filed this bill after hearing from her constituents…
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The legislation heads to the House floor for more discussion.

Governor John Bel Edwards will announce a new public health order today during a 3:30 press conference as the current COVID restrictions expire tomorrow. Edwards says the state is making good progress fighting the pandemic, but the long-term fate of some COVID restrictions is somewhat out of our hands…
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The state health department says one-point-two million Louisiana residents have completed the vaccination series, but the C-D-C says only 32-percent of Louisiana’s eligible population is vaccinated, which is the third-lowest percentage in the country. Mississippi has the lowest percentage and Alabama is second. Tulane Epidemiologist Doctor Susan Hassig…
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