Country music legend Garth Brooks is coming to Baton Rouge’s Tiger stadium this spring. More from Michelle Southern…:

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A federal judge in Louisiana’s western district temporarily blocks President Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate for all U.S. health care workers. The vaccine order was to have taken effect next week and could result in thousands of nurses, doctors and technicians losing their jobs in February.

According to the Louisiana Tech Center for Economic Research’s first Economic Abstract of the state’s economy, employment has increased but it’s not at pre-pandemic levels yet. Center Director Dr. Patrick Scott says there are two ways to possibly increase the workforce…L:

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Former St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain is facing up to ten years in a federal lockup after pleading guilty today to one of 16 corruption counts in a kickback scheme related to his privatizing of an inmate work release program. Loyola University law professor Dane Ciolino says Strain’s federal plea may have been an attempt to avoid going first into the state’s prison system…:

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Strain was convicted last month of multiple counts of sexual assault, for which he faces a probable life sentence.