Shreveport police have made an arrest in Sunday’s fatal shooting of a one-year-old. Twenty-seven-year-old Deanthony Griffin allegedly fired his gun into an apartment complex and one of the bullets struck the infant.

A two-day public hearing on the proposed sale of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana to Elevance Health of Indiana has been canceled as the Louisiana Department of Insurance has been informed the acquisiton is off. Several state lawmakers are concerned this was a bad deal for Blue Cross’s one-point-nine million policyholders. Senate Health and Welfare Chairman Patrick McMath says Elevance Health has a troubled history…
Cut 10 (09) “…profits soaring.”
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana has raised concerns about its future with health care costs are rising faster than premiums.

Lenten season starts today and there should be plenty of seafood in the Bayou State for Catholics who abstain from meat.
cut 2 (32) “…I’m Teiko Foxx”

During the Lenten season many Christians give up something like sweets or alcohol. LSU Professor of religious studies Michael Pasquier…
cut 14 (12) “….positive ways”