State Police is investigating a fatal police shooting that occurred in Houma yesterday afternoon. Jeff Palermo has the story
A Shreveport couple has been arrested for cruelty to a juvenile after their three-year-old child was found severely malnourished and weighing only 11 pounds. Ietadterneisha Marshall and Derrick George are being held on charges of second-degree cruelty of a juvenile at the Shreveport Jail and the child was taken to a local hospital. Officers responded to a medical emergency in the 3800 block of Larue Street on Monday.
The vaccine rate among 12 to 18-year-olds in the state is 35-percent and with the COVID vaccine expected to be approved for 5 to 11 years olds will parents get them vaccinated? Dr. Ben Springgate with LSU Health New Orleans says he thinks a third will have them vaccinated ASAP and others will speak with their pediatrician first.
The CDC is meeting today and reviewing data on the Pfizer COVID vaccine for children.
Today Attorney General Jeff Landry was in Bossier City, his second public appearance in north Louisiana in as many days. There’s speculation Landry will run for governor in 2023 and during a speech at the West Monroe Convention Center on Monday, he said election reform should be a top priority and that includes new voting machines that provide voters with a paper receipt of their vote…