Now that we know a second Dallas hospital worker has tested positive Ebola, many Louisianians are wondering if we’re prepared to handle a patient with the virus. Louisiana Hospital Association Vice President Ken Alexander says he’s confident the health care industry in Louisiana is doing everything it can to properly prepare for Ebola case in this state:
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National Nurses United is concerned about the new case, and questions whether nurses have been adequately trained and have the protective gear to take care of Ebola patients.

The cause of death of a woman whose body was found under a house in Houma early last Friday morning has been determined as blunt force trauma according to officials. They believe 22-year-old Dashata Brown was killed in a domestic violence incident with her boyfriend, 42-year-old Michael Tucker who is charged in her death. Investigators still don’t know the victim got under the house.

Louisiana State Police is investigating a fatal pedestrian accident which occurred on I-10 just before 3am in Ascension Parish. Trooper Jared Sandifer says 21-year-old April Tasker of Geismar was stopped on the side of the road next to her car when for unknown reasons she attempted to walk across the interstate…:
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Sandifer says Tasker was hit by an 18-wheeler and pronounced dead at the scene.

The National Weather Service in Shreveport has confirmed it was an EF-2 tornado that went through Ouachita Parish during Monday’s storms that caused widespread damage throughout the area. They say it traveled 9 miles and was 300 yards at its widest point.