Today is the deadline to register for FEMA disaster relief if your main home suffered damage during Hurricane Ida. FEMA’s Nathan Custer says more than a half-million property owners have registered with FEMA since Ida hit and at least $1.6-billion in assistance has been paid out by the agency…:

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Custer says you can claim for damage ranging from the minor to the catastrophic, but if you haven’t registered with FEMA for assistance, you only have hours left to do so.

A holiday weekend child hand-off from one divorced parent to another became violent and ended with one man dead. Shreveport Police say adults meeting in a gas station lot for the exchange argued, and then gunfire erupted.  That was one of four shootings SPD responded to within just five minutes Sunday.

The figures are in and this year’s Small Business Saturday was an apparent record-setter. More from Dave Brannen…:

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A new COVID variant, called Omicron, has some alarmed. Governor John Bel Edwards urges us all to take steps to help slow transmission…:

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Right now, just under half the state has need vaccinated for coronavirus.