Louisiana will be back under a mask mandate starting tomorrow for both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, age five and over. Governor Edwards says this indoor mask mandate will stay in place for at least the rest of the month as the number of COVID patients in Louisiana hospitals has reached nearly two thousand.

And Matt Doyle reports far more children are getting COVID than any other time during the pandemic due to the Delta variant…
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Louisiana business groups are urging the public to follow the state’s new indoor mask mandate. Louisiana Restaurant Association President Stan Harris says asking patrons to wear a mask is a simple step that can help reduce COVID spread…
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Harris also encourages everyone 12 years and up to consider taking the vaccine so the state can return to normal faster.

The Louisiana Department of Revenue will soon turn over more than $10-million dollars to Unclaimed Property. Department of Revenue Spokesperson Byron Henderson says it’s money that was issued by paper checks for tax refunds, from July of 2019 to June of 2020, that have gone uncashed.
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Henderson says the department has sent out 13-thousand letters notifying individuals and businesses of the uncashed checks.