Louisiana’s Teen Vax Campaign is looking for volunteers to become vaccine youth ambassadors. The group’s Ritney Castine says you can be 12 and 17 to help lead the state’s effort to improve the Bayou State’s vaccination rates.

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The reality of passenger rail service from the Capital City to the Crescent City is beginning to take shape. Baton Rouge Area Foundation Executive VP John Spain says a rail merger will give Canadian Pacific, who already has a relationship with Amtrak, control of the track and the track is built for freight, not passengers, but that shouldn’t be a major obstacle.

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As Governor Edwards says he’ll keep pushing for COVID shots to be required for school kids, Senator John Kennedy goes on record against mandates. Kevin Gallagher has that…:

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Officials have identified the pilot of a helicopter who died when his chopper crashed on the I-10 Bonnet Carre Spillway in St. Charles Parish. His name is Joshua Hawley of Denham Springs. The 42-year-old was a father of three young children and 13-year U-S Marine Corps veteran.