230 PM LRN News

The tort reform legislation that supporters say will lower your auto insurance rates is closer to final legislative passage as it passes out of a House committee….

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A teenager died over the weekend in the waters off the coast of Grand Isle after a powerful riptide is believed to have dragged the victim and two others out away from the shore. The two others, a 15 year old and 45 year old, were family members of 17-year-old Oscar Aguilar, who died in the incident.

The Manning Passing Academy, a famed institution that attracts 1,200 campers and 200 coaches to the Natchitoches area every summer, is canceled this year due to COVID-19. College and pro football analyst Mike Detillier says most of the starting quarterbacks in the NFL have attended as a camper or a counselor and the camp is not just for quarterbacks

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He adds this plus the cancellation of the Louisiana Line Camp at Nichols will result in a two million dollar loss in economic activity for the state.

Former south Louisiana Congressman and international pharma lobby head Billy Tauzin believes there will be an effective, non-vaccine treatment for COVID-19 by September. Tauzin says those treatments are focused on three categories: plasma infusions from COVID survivors, “decoy” proteins, and lab-created antibodies…

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