It’s Cyber Monday but before you click on that too good to be true sale, Brooke Thorington has some tips on avoiding a scam.
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The St. Landry Sheriff is reporting that an ATV accident late Sunday afternoon left a child dead. A woman reported the five-year-old was riding in the side-by-side vehicle in a field with her husband when the ATV crashed. The boy, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead at the hospital. The crash occurred in the Frilot Cove area. No word on the cause of the accident.
News of the Omicron variant of COVID has health experts concerned as a number of countries have reported cases of the new variant. Governor Edwards says we should all be concerned about the newest variant and continue to practice mitigation. The governor says he’s hoping and praying the state will not have another surge similar to the one Louisiana experienced in July and August.
This year’s 12th annual Small Business Saturday was a hit nationwide with spending hitting an estimated all-time high of 23.3-billion dollars. Dawn McVea, Louisiana Director of the National Federation of Independent Business, says the figure includes a two percent increase in small business online shopping that increased to 58 percent.
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McVea says six percent more shoppers opted Saturday to support local independent restaurants around the nation than in 2020.