The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness has launched a program to provide housing to Hurricane Ida victims left homeless as a result of the storm. GOHSEP Deputy Director Casey Tingle says with FEMA’s assistance they hope to have trailers, mobile homes, and even shipping containers installed as soon as this weekend that can provide temporary housing
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Hurricane victims looking to register should go to Ida-sheltering-la-dot-com.

Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge announces plans to build an 80-thousand square foot, 100-million dollar cancer center. Governor John Bel Edwards says once the state of the art center is constructed, it will eliminate the need for cancer patients to seek treatment out of state…
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The U-S House still has yet to vote on a one-point-two trillion-dollar infrastructure bill and also a three-point-five trillion-dollar social spending bill. New Orleans Congressman Troy Carter says both measures are important to Louisiana…
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The three-point-five trillion-dollar spending bill would provide free community college and universal pre-K.

When you are waiting on something as important as a liver or kidney for a transplant, time is of the essence. Right now, you have to receive that organ within four hours for it to remain viable. But LSU Mechanical Engineer Professor Ram Devireddy (Dev-ah-ready) says they are researching ways to freeze an organ so it can remain viable longer
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LSU has received a $433-thousand grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the best method to preserve an organ.