The East Baton Rouge coroner has classified two-year-old Neveah Allen’s death as a homicide and more tests are needed to determine how the little girl from Baton Rouge died. Her body was found in southern Mississippi on Sunday and her stepfather has been arrested, but he’s not been charged with murder.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell tells Krewe members if they want the parades to roll, then roll up their sleeve…
cut 2 (33) “….I’m Brooke Thorington”

At-risk adults in Louisiana who completed the Pfizer vaccine series over six months ago can receive a booster shot. Moderna and Johnson and Johnson have yet to approach the FDA about needing a booster for their COVID vaccines. Tulane Epidemiologist Doctor Susan Hassig says for the J-and-J vaccine, not as many in the U-S took that shot…
cut 14 (11) “….and Pfizer”

The FBI says the murder rate for 2020 was 30-percent higher than the year before, the largest single jump since the agency began recording crime statistics six decades ago. LSU School of Medicine criminologist, Doctor Peter Scharf says homicides are up 72-percent in New Orleans from 2019 to 2021…
cut 8 (06) “….rest of the country ”
He says shootings are up 111-percent from 2019 in New Orleans and carjackings 162-percent.