During a weekly conference call with reporters, Senator Bill Cassidy said 600-million in hurricane recovery dollars are headed towards southwest Louisiana as a result of a funding bill signed by the President last week…
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Cassidy believes it will be difficult to get another allotment for southwest Louisiana. He says the same spending bill also has one-billion dollars for Hurricane Ida recovery.

State health officials are asking unvaccinated individuals who attended a wedding on September 25th at L’Eglise in Abbeville to quarantine until Saturday as several people who attended the wedding have tested positive for COVID-19. Doctor Tina Stefanski, medical director for Region Four, says 150 people were in attendance and they consider all attendees exposed to COVID-19…
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AstraZeneca is hoping their monoclonal antibody treatment will receive emergency use authorization in the effort to help end the pandemic. Brooke Thorington has more.
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We are 13 months away from next year’s November election and Senator John Kennedy finally has an announced challenger. Luke Mixon is a 42-year-old Democrat from Baton Rouge, who grew up in Avoyelles Parish. Mixon is a political newcomer who is a former Navy pilot and currently flies commercial planes.