Governor John Bel Edwards made an appearance at Saints training camp on Monday and says the state is moving forward with plans to complete 450-million dollars in renovations to the Mercedes Benz Superdome. Edwards says it’s vital to upgrade the 44-year-old building so that it can remain competitive when attracting major sporting events…
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The Saints, the Louisiana Stadium Exposition District through a motel tax and the state will fund the renovations, which Edwards says will begin after the football season.

Convicted child killer Jason Reeves was set to die by lethal injection on August 19th, but the execution date has been put on hold after his attorney filed an appeal. Calcasieu Parish District Attorney John DeRosier…
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Reeves kidnapped, raped and fatally stabbed four-year-old Mary Jean Thigpen of Moss Bluff in 2001.

An LSU study shows over the last six decades rain events have become more intense and drop more rain in a shorter period of time, causing an increased risk of flash flooding. LSU Assistant Professor of Research Dr. Vincent Brown says not all rain events are more intense, but there has been an increase in the number of severe downpours…
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Brown says a rise in Gulf sea surface temperatures is a factor in the increase of flash flooding events.

If you need vaccination records for yourself or your children, the state has all that information at one website, L-A-dot-MY-I-R-dot net. Assistant Secretary for the Office of Public Health Doctor Alexander Billioux says if you were vaccinated out of state, there is technology called Blue Button, which many health systems use to share data…
cut 6 (09) “….your old data”
Again the website is L-A-dot-My-I-R-dot-net.