Louisiana sets records for its unemployment rate and the number of folks employed in the latest jobs report. Kevin Gallagher has the story…
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Baton Rouge Judge Don Johnson denies Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry’s request to allow a law that bans most abortions to go into effect while he appeals Johnson’s previous ruling that blocked the abortion ban. That means the state’s three licensed abortion clinics remain open for now.

A researcher at Tulane University co-authors two studies that pinpoints the Wuhan Market as the origin of COVID-19 cases in humans. Tulane professor of microbiology & immunology Dr. Robert Garry says the conclusion came after extensive examination of thousands of DNA samples collected. He says they were able to identify some of the very first persons to contract the deadly virus…:
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Specifically the southwest corner of the market, which is the same section where vendors were selling live mammals known to be susceptible to SARS-related coronaviruses.

Lafourche Parish Sheriff deputies have charged 65-year-old Rickey Cheramie with video voyeurism after he allegedly installed a camera in a woman’s bathroom of her home. Captain Brennan Matherne…
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Matherne says Cheramie initially told investigators the cameras were to monitor who was going in and out of rooms in the home.