SHREVEPORT (AP) — A driver died and five passengers were hurt in a crash during a police chase in Louisiana while officers worked to disperse a large crowd suspected of participating in street racing.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, is warning Congress that reopening the economy too soon during the coronavirus pandemic will result in “needless suffering and death.”
The Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana is offering emergency assistance grants to help 501c3 nonprofit organizations in southwest Louisiana through a competitive grant process. Since many agencies are gearing up to reopen once stay-at-home restrictions end, preparations must be made to ensure safety.
LAPLACE (AP) — Authorities in Louisiana said they are looking for a man who escaped after allegedly kidnapping a 73-year-old woman and twice leading authorities in a car chase.
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana’s forecasting panel Monday slashed the state’s income projections by $1 billion because of the coronavirus outbreak, blowing a hole in next year’s budget as the virus’s economic fallout threatens deep cuts across state services.
\WASHINGTON (AP) — With deaths mounting at the nation’s nursing homes, the White House strongly recommended to governors Monday that all residents and staff at such facilities be tested for the coronavirus in the next two weeks.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Organ transplants plummeted as COVID-19 swept through communities, with surgeons wary of endangering living donors and unable to retrieve possibly usable organs from the dead -- and hospitals sometimes too full even when they could.