Governor John Bel Edwards has called a news conference for 10:30am to give the latest on the state’s Covid numbers which recorded another single day high of cases Wednesday at 17-thousand. The state Department of Health says that’s with about 2-thousand in the hospital. Tulane University epidemiologist Dr. Susan Hassig says that number does not represent one single day of test results…:
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Of the 2000 people hospitalized with the virus, 75-percent are not fully vaccinated.

With voters in St. Tammany Parish rejecting a proposal to move a Bossier City casino license to Slidell, what becomes of that casino? State Gaming Control Commissioner Ronnie Johns says state law dictates that Diamond Jack’s casino must re-open within 60 days of the failed referendum…:
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Its license is for one of 15 state riverboat casinos.

A new study finds drug overdose deaths from 2019 to 2020 increased across the nation by 31-percent and in Louisiana, it’s even worse. Brooke Thorington has more…:
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The Hammond Police Department reports a homeless man that had fallen asleep inside a dumpster was killed when he was crushed by a garbage truck compactor. They say the man, identified as 42-year-old Jermain Watts, was likely trying to escape the cold in the dumpster when the compactor was activated.