State health officials are concerned about rising COVID numbers in the Lake Charles, Alexandria, and Monroe regions. Assistant Health Secretary Dr. Alex Billioux says while the state as a whole is seeing consistently declining numbers of COVID hospitalizations those areas have seen a steady uptick. That being said…
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The number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized statewide continues to fall, it’s at 549.

LSU is helping all of its student-athletes register to vote. LSU executive deputy athletic director Verge Ausberry expects every football player eligible to vote will be registered by Friday, even those who do not live in Louisiana…
cut 14 (08) “….their absentee ballot”
But Ausberry says the school will not influence their student-athletes on who they should vote for.

A study shows the COVID-19 pandemic has put financial pressures on nearly three-quarters of the nonprofits in southeast Louisiana. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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