Louisiana has surpassed one-thousand deaths from COVID-19. The state reported 129 more fatalities bringing the death toll to 1,013. Governor John Bel Edwards says much of the spike was the result of a reporting backlog, but that doesn’t make it any easier to process…
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Today, the governor holds his monthly call-in show at two PM.

The Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block the state’s efforts to close abortion clinics because of the coronavirus pandemic. Kathleen Pittman, administrator for the Hope Medical Group in Shreveport, says their facility is practicing social distancing and they do not use equipment needed by most hospitals…
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Attorney General Jeff Landry says the abortion clinics are trying to make the argument that the rules do not apply to them.

The coronavirus pandemic is giving about 12-hundred non-violent inmates a chance for a medical release. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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