ST. MARTINVILLE, La. (KLFY) — Effective immediately, the St. Martinville City Hall drive-thru will change hours of operation to Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. All municipal buildings are still closed to the public. St. Martinville residents are encouraged to use the city’s online kiosk or night depository to make payments […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CBS News) — With Louisiana seeing explosive growth in its number of coronavirus cases and New Orleans poised to become the next epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S., Governor John Bel Edwards said the federal government has not yet approved the state’s request for more ventilators from the nation’s stockpile. “We haven’t yet been […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s foremost infection disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, says the U.S. will certainly have “millions of cases” of COVID-19 and more than 100,000 deaths. As the U.S. tops the world in reported infections from the new coronavirus, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases predicts 100,000-200,000 […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — Gov. John Bel Edwards says Louisiana is doing everything it can to protect inmates in the state’s prisons from the coronavirus. Two prison workers have tested positive for the virus. The Louisiana Department of Corrections hasn’t named the two prisons where the employees worked. The agency says the workers had limited […]
ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) – Florida law enforcement agencies set up checkpoints at the Alabama-Florida border. On Friday, Governor Ron Desantis issued an executive order to keep people travelling from areas known to have a lot of COVID-19 cases out of the state. Executive Order 20-86, directing all persons who enter the State of Florida […]
BATON ROUGE, LA – Amid reports that the June Medical Services (d/b/a Hope Medical Group) abortion clinic in Shreveport is ignoring the Louisiana Department of Health’s Notice #2020-COVID19-ALL-007 suspending the performance of all elective medical procedures and surgeries in Louisiana – Attorney General Jeff Landry issued the following statement: “COVID-19 is a public health emergency in Louisiana, […]