A number of cities are taking up policing policy changes in the wake of massive nationwide George Floyd protests. One of the proposed changes involves taking funding away from police departments and using the cash to fund social services like education. Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome says she doesn’t support that policy, and instead told Talk Louisiana she’s concerned about police unions and their efforts to protect bad apples in the force…
The LSU football team will start voluntary summer workouts tomorrow. Senior associate athletic trainer Shelly Mullenix says when players arrived on campus last week they were given an antibody test…
The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico this year is expected to hit nearly 77-hundred square miles according to LSU Marine Science Professor Nancy Rabalais who says that’s nearly the size of New Hampshire…
The dead zone stretches along the bottom of the continental shelf along Texas and Louisiana and forms due to fertilizer filtering downstream from the Midwest.
The Louisiana Department of Health is reminding the public to catch up on the routine vaccinations that went by the wayside due to coronavirus restrictions. State immunization director Dr. Frank Welch says medical facilities are opened again, it’s time to get back on track.
Cut 3 (10) “…get their vaccines.”