The state’s COVID-19 death toll surpasses 1,000 fatalities with 129 additional deaths. Today’s report is the largest single-day addition of deaths since the COVID-19 outbreak began. The total number of cases is at 21,518. Louisiana’s presidential primary and other general spring elections are slated to be delayed again. This time pushing back from June to July and August.
The National Weather Service has confirmed at least seven tornadoes ravaged north Louisiana on Easter Sunday. N-W-S Meteorologist Brad Bryant says the most powerful twister started in West Monroe and traveled for about eight miles. Bryant says tornadoes also impacted Northwest Louisiana in De Soto Parish.
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Unlike neighboring Mississippi, Louisiana had no fatalities from the storm activity.
Oil producing nations agree to cut production by 9.7 million barrels in an effort to cool a worsening price war, but one expert warns it’s not nearly enough to save the state’s oil industry…