This is the time of year when people gather to spend time with friends and family and gather at shopping centers to get bargains. Unfortunately, it’s also a prime opportunity to share germs. Ochsner primary care physician Edit Mbagu (M-bag-woo) says there ways to be a healthy shopper.
Mbagu says it’s not too late to get a flu shot if you haven’t already gotten one.
A newborn child is dead following a Christmas night wreck in Sulphur. Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Commander James McGee says the SUV carrying the child, the driver and two other passengers was traveling west on High Hope Road around 10:30 last night when the crash occurred.
All others in the vehicle were treated for minor injuries.
Parishioners in Cow Island had their small Vermillion Parish community blessed Sunday by 100 gallons of holy water dispersed from a crop-dusting plane courtesy of St. Anne Catholic Church. St. Anne Reverend Matthew Barzare says the idea came from a congregant who wanted to pull the community together with a millennia-old tradition.
Cow Island is an unincorporated territory about 40 miles south of Lafayette and is within the Lafayette Archdiocese.
600 more children up to the age of three will be in early childhood education centers in 2020 thanks to a three year grant from the feds. Louisiana Department of Education Assistant Superintendent Jessica Baghian says the state will receive 11 million a year during that period to help fix a long-running problem for Louisiana’s youngest…