A task force aimed at tackling Louisiana’s sky high auto insurance rates has begun meeting….
voicer 1 (31) “…Kevin Barnhart”

Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff deputies arrested two women after they went door-to-door and said they were raising money for a young girl suffering from leukemia, when it turned out they were allegedly trying to pay for their heroin addiction. 28-year-old Brooke Thibodeaux and 23-year-old Heather Reichert-Jackson of Denham Springs were booked on fraud charges.

Louisiana leads the nation in the number of cases of the serious form of the West Nile virus. 31 people in the Bayou State developed the neuroinvasive disease, which can lead to death, paralysis and brain damage. State epidemiologist, Doctor Raoult Ratard, says it’s a bad year for West Nile and weather conditions are to blame…
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Ratard says residents need to take precautions against mosquito bites.

A nationwide prison strike saw prisoners in 17 states participate in a call for prison reform and an end to prison labor, with reports saying there may have been strike activity in Louisiana as well. People’s Assembly New Orleans Organizer Christina Nesheiwat says these kinds of strikes can take many forms…
Cut 7 (10) “…visitation