The state health department reports the first detected case of Monkey Pox in a resident. The case is from the greater New Orleans area. And another case has been reported from an out-of-state resident who was visiting Louisiana. State Officer Dr. Joe Kanter says Monkeypox is not Ebola, it’s not COVID and he doesn’t expect this to erupt into a worldwide pandemic.
Louisiana and Baton Rouge are hosting the annual National Association of Secretaries of State. Kevin Gallagher reports…:
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Deputies in Ascension Parish say a Saturday traffic stop led to discovery of an SUV loaded with guns and ammo. Sheriff’s spokesman Donovan Jackson says Reginald LeBlanc was pulled over after a brief chase, and that’s when officers found an AK-47, a fully automatic handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammo. He says, given the mass shooting Monday in Illinois, this was troubling. Jackson says they don’t know why LeBlanc had the weapons or where he was going…:
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In DC, Louisiana Senator John Kennedy says protests outside of the homes of US Supreme Court Justices are illegal. Since the reversal of Roe v Wade activists have gathered outside the homes of some justices. Kennedy says you can protest outside of a lawmaker’s home, the White House or a federal building…