Detectives with St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Major Crime Unit are investigating a shooting that occurred Monday afternoon outside a Slidell-area business. STPSO Lt. Suzanne Carboni…
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Deputies found 67-year0old Dennis Knecht was pronounced dead at the scene. 64-year-old Cynthia Knecht was transported by emergency medical personnel to a local hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries.
A Lafayette roofing company is accused of defrauding insurance companies. Nathan Strebeck with the state office of insurance fraud says Zac Moore and Roofing Guys LLC have allegedly been going to people’s homes telling them that they needed a new roof, when they didn’t. Inspectors found that the damage to these roofs was man-made and led to a roof replacement costing 27-thousand dollars. Strebeck says one big takeaway from all this is for homeowners to tell roofing companies, “don’t call us, we’ll call you.”
Furthermore, Strebeck stresses that roofing companies are not insurance experts.
The good news: layoffs appear to be subsiding. The bad news: so has hiring. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The 2024 flu season is off to a slower-than-usual start, with early data suggesting similar flu activity levels than previous years. Ochsner Medical Family Medicine Physician Dr. Whitney Hardy says this is due to various factors, including widespread vaccination campaigns