Louisiana sets another all-time high at the gas pump today. Brooke Thorington has more.

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The House Civil Law Committee approves legislation that would make it illegal to discriminate against a person based on certain hairstyles. New Orleans Representative Candace Newell is the author of the bill and says it’s not just African Americans who could be victims of hair discrimination…

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Today the Food and Drug Administration announced that it has authorized a booster dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11. Unfortunately, Dr. Mark Kline, the Chief Medical Officer at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans says a large number of children in the state are ineligible for the booster since an overwhelming number of kids in the five to 11 age group haven’t been vaccinated at all. Nationally, just under 30 percent of children have received the vaccine, and in Louisiana, the numbers are much lower…

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