We’re not even in the month of November yet, and flu activity is ramping up in Louisiana. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The Louisiana Attorney General’s Office is accusing a northeast Louisiana police chief of stealing funds intended for the family of a police officer killed in the line of duty. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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According to the CDC, Louisiana has the highest rate of flu activity of any state in the Continental United States. Dr. Fred Lopez, a professor of medicine at LSU Health New Orleans, says this is a relatively early start to flu season.
Louisiana and Hawaii are the only states where flu activity has risen to the level of “moderate” this early into flu season. Dr. Lopez says the prevailing subtype this year is H1N1.
Lopez says there are a couple of reasons why people here in Louisiana are especially at risk for getting the flu.
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The Shreveport Regional Airport is offering daily nonstop flights to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for the first time in 18 years. The new United Airlines service began Sunday, and airport spokesperson Mark Crawford says Monday’s flight was nearly full…
Crawford says the Chicago once-daily flight leaves between seven AM and nine AM and takes about two hours to arrive at O’Hare…
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Crawford says a daily flight out of Shreveport to Chicago every morning opens an opportunity to more than 220 cities from Chicago, including 47 international destinations. Or he says you can use this flight to spend the day in Chicago…
Crawford says if demand is high, a second daily flight could be added, as they’ve seen with flights to Charlotte and Denver.
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Some scary moments on the campus of Southern University yesterday evening as a student is accidentally shot on campus. Baton Rouge Police Corporal Saundra Watts says 19-year-olds Jiqueze Dillon and Robert Washington were with a 20-year-old student in the parking lot at University Apartments
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The victim was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive his injuries. Watts says the 19-year-olds are both facing charges.
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Watts says incidents like this underscores the fact that people need to know that guns are not toys – they need to be handled with the greatest of care.