Calcasieu Parish is still picking up the pieces from Hurricane Laura and now the area is bracing for Hurricane Delta, which is expected to make landfall in southwest Louisiana Friday afternoon or early evening. Parish President Tony Guillory says for the second time in 43 days they’ve called for a mandatory evacuation
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Once Delta makes landfall, it’s expected to move northeast and the center of the storm could cross over Alexandria early Saturday morning and then into northeast Louisiana. Governor John Bel Edwards says the National Guard is ready to respond….
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A House committee has approved legislation inspired by the controversial punishment of a Jefferson Parish 4th grader who had a BB gun visible in his web camera during an online class. The legislation would create a protocol for disciplinary procedures for virtual education and offer some judicial review of certain disciplinary cases. Ka’Mauri Harrison’s father Nyron testified…
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The measure heads to the House floor.

The state’s unemployment trust fund is now out of money and Louisiana is borrowing cash from the feds to pay out unemployment benefits. Louisiana Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Dejoie says since March 22nd, the state has paid out nearly seven-billion dollars in various forms of unemployment compensation over 400-thousand citizens…
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