FEMA has announced that Calcasieu Parish residents who are not able to live in their home because of Hurricane Laura damage qualify for housing assistance, which includes the placing of a FEMA RV or manufactured home on a survivor’s property. FEMA Division Supervisor Jerry Stolar says many of these homes were used four years ago…
Stolar says FEMA is reaching out to residents who are eligible for this program.
For the first time in two weeks, there are no tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Basin, after a breathless few weeks where as many as five named storms were active in the Atlantic at once. But State Climatologist Barry Keim says some of the modeling community is projecting after about a week’s break the Basin will again start churning out systems…
Louisiana saw a notable drop in the rate of women murdered by men in 2018, by about 15 percent. Despite the drop, Louisiana still had the 5th highest rate in the nation. Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence Director Mariah Wineski says we have a lot of work to do when it comes to identifying situations that will eventually become homicides.
Louisiana’s rate of 2.26 victims per 100,000 women in 2018 was 77 percent higher than the national average.
Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser has received a flu shot and he’s encouraging all Louisiana to get the vaccination as well. Nungesser participated in a Walgreens Flu Shot promotion with Baton Rouge Senator Regina Barrow