The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education adopts a list of minimum COVID safety standards that school districts will be called on to implement once classes resume. The recommendations cover everything from mandatory face coverings to group size maximums. Children’s Hospital Chief Quality Officer Dr. Leron Finger says if schools follow these rules…
Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s deputies are on the hunt for a shooting suspect that left two people dead, a third fighting for her life at a home in Westlake. Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso says deputies were dispatched to the home around 4 AM after a call from one the victims concerning the suspect, 51-year-old Neil Broussard.
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The Louisiana Department of Revenue says they are having network connectivity issues with the website where front-line workers can apply for a 250-dollar hazard paycheck. Revenue Secretary Kimberly Robinson says Frontlineworkers.la.gov began accepting applications at midnight and by seven AM they accepted more than 14-thousand applications. Robinson says they have funding available for 200-thousand applicants…
Over 2,000 new confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the state along with 14 additional deaths, but so far the hospitalization data has not been reported. Nearly 7,000 additional people are reported to have recovered from the disease, giving the state about 31,000 known ongoing cases, and the state also passed one million total COVID-19 tests conducted.