A video of a black Baton Rouge activist eviscerating a white school board member for online shopping during a meeting about renaming a school named after slave owner Robert E. Lee has gone viral. Gary Chambers, who was a candidate for the Louisiana state senate last year, tore into Connie Bernard at the meeting on Thursday. He'd…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A child in Louisiana has died of a rare inflammatory condition that’s possibly linked to the novel coronavirus, marking the first such death in the state, health officials said this week.In addition to the one death, at least 13 cases of…
Local healthcare workers process people at the Baton Rouge General Mid-City location, Tuesday, March 24, 2020, during testing that resumed from 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, for those with a doctor's pre-approval, for the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Local healthcare workers process people at the Baton Rouge General Mid-City location, Tuesday, March 24, 2020, during testing that resumed…
1 of 3 Crawfish file photo (Photo by David Grunfeld, NOLA.com, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate) Dr. Alex Billioux, M.D., Assistant Secretary of Health for the La. Dept. of Health's Office of Public Health, speaks as Gov. John Bel Edwards, right, looks on, Monday, May 11, 2020 at Edwards' media briefing on the…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…