Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry says it’s illegal for LSU to mandate vaccines for students to attend school this fall. The university’s faculty senate says the only way to ensure a safe normal semester to mandate vaccination, but Landry says if the faculty wants to be safe they should get vaccinated themselves…
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An LSU spokesperson says they are looking at other options and alternatives to mandating the vaccine.

A clinical trial is underway to see if a special nasal spray can prevent a person from getting COVID-19. Baton Rouge General rhinologist Henry Barham says the spray is not a substitute for the vaccine, instead a compliment. Barham says the spray is targeted to one part of the body as opposed to entering the bloodstream.
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Louisiana K-12 schools will educate over 200,000 students for summer school after a year where most students spent a lot of time out of the classroom and in front of screens. Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley says they managed to have 70 percent of students back in the classroom by the end of the school year, but many still need help before the next school year…
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Brumley says to incentivize more summer school attendance they’ve encouraged school systems to use federal funds to create more of a summer camp, and not a traditional summer school experience.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries confirms a red piranha, which is a species native to South America was caught in the University Lakes near LSU. Aquatic Nuisance Species Coordinator Robert Bourgeois on how it got into the lakes…
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Bourgeois says they hope it was the only piranha in the lake because they will go after dead or dying prey.