A pre-pandemic report indicates 57 percent of Louisiana’s children live in households below the ALICE threshold. Brooke Thorington explains.
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Energy provider CLECO announced today it will invest 900-million dollars to significantly reduce carbon emissions at its electric generation unit in Lena. Cleco says it will build a carbon capture and sequestration facility to remove and compress 95-percent or more of the C-O-2 emitted in geological formations under the site.

NBC News reports the wholesale price for eggs is up nearly three times over this time last year. According to the U-S-D-A, the major reason for the price spike is an outbreak of avian flu that has affected 24 states and more than 46 million birds. Louisiana Ag Commissioner Mike Strain says measures and guidelines are in place to help stem the tide.
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Strain hopes by acting quickly, a much bigger outbreak can be avoided.

A Lafayette Police officer is said to be fighting for his life after a two-vehicle crash on the Basin Bridge in Iberville Parish yesterday morning. State Police spokesperson Taylor Scrantz says Lt. Todd Alcorn was off-duty and driving a personal vehicle when he struck a bridge rail and lost control…

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Scrantz says Alcorn is in critical condition at a Baton Rouge hospital and the driver in the other vehicle sustained moderate issues. He says they believe Alcorn was impaired at the time of the wreck.