Some of our top headlines from the past day.
with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editorGood morning. Some of our top headlines today: Post-Ida insurance woesFour months after Hurricane Ida tore through southeast Louisiana, thousands of residents already worn thin from trying to navigate the byzantine insurance process face a new set of hurdles with their mortgage companies. In this story, Blake Paterson explains how insurance payouts are getting held up and what some Louisiana lawmakers plan to do about it. Shorter quarantines, isolation U.S. health officials halved isolation requirements for COVID-positive people from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine. Here's an explainer on the decision and Long lines, test shortagesAs omicron drives up COVID case counts at a pace far outstripping past surges in Louisiana, folks are having trouble getting tested in a timely manner. We sent several reporters out in the field Monday to see what people have been dealing with when they try to get tested in the state's fifth and fastest-rising coronavirus wave. Click here to read their story. Thanks for reading, and have a great rest-of-the-day! |
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| U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shor… Read more |
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| When Steve Kenny first received a check from his insurer for Hurricane Ida damages, he thought finally he’d have the money to repair his St… Read more |
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| A toddler went missing from his house in Slaughter after last being seen with his father late Sunday afternoon, and authorities are asking … Read more |
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| An appeals court did not err last month when it threw out Baton Rouge serial killer Kenneth Gleason's conviction after he died in prison wh… Read more |
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| When Hurricane Ida knocked out all eight of the transmission lines that bring power to New Orleans, it highlighted a vulnerability in the w… Read more |
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| BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana State University museum official has received a unique retirement gift -- researchers in Alabama and South C… Read more |
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| The legal fight over whether St. George gets to become an actual city will likely play out in the spring — more than two years after voters… Read more |
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| NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana researchers have identified 14 new species of shrews on an Indonesian island where seven in that genus were pr… Read more |
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| Coronavirus hospitalizations and cases continued to surge in Louisiana over the holiday weekend, as the state Department of Health reported… Read more |
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