A missing two-year-old from Baton Rouge was found dead in Hancock County Mississippi on Sunday. The child’s live-in boyfriend, 30-year-old Phillip Gardner, has been arrested. And court records show the Shreveport mother accused of tossing two of her kids into Cross Lake on Friday has a lengthy criminal record. One of the children died, the other was rescued.

Booster shots for the Pfizer COVID vaccine are now available in Louisiana. Brooke Thorington has more.
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The U.S. House could vote today on a Senate-approved one-trillion-dollar infrastructure bill. Louisiana Secretary of Transportation Shawn Wilson says the bill will be a boon to Louisiana’s road & bridge needs and he’s encouraged it received bipartisan support in the Senate…:
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But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may push back today’s scheduled vote of the infrastructure bill to later this week. House Republicans oppose the measure because it’s linked to a social spending bill.

Some schools in Lafourche Parish reopen today for the first time since Hurricane Ida. Lafourche school superintendent Jarod Martin says some schools are still not ready to re-open, so many students will attend classes at a different school…
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