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The head warden and medical director of Raymond Laborde Correctional Center in Avoyelles Parish have died from the coronavirus, state officials have confirmed.Warden Sandy McCain, who had overseen Raymond Laborde Correctional Center for the past four years and had served with DOC for almost three decades, died after battling COVID-19 for almost a month, Department of Corrections…

By WAFB Staff | April 20, 2020 at 5:33 PM CDT - Updated April 20 at 5:38 PM AVOYELLES PARISH, La. (WAFB) - The warden of a Louisiana state prison has died of the novel coronavirus, the Louisiana Department of Corrections (DOC) confirms. Sandy McCain, warden of Raymond Laborde Correctional Center in Avoyelles Parish, died…

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An off-duty Louisiana police officer shot a 14-year-old boy in the head after he woke up to a noise outside his home, authorities said.The shooting happened just after 3 a.m. on Friday at a home in Metairie, about seven miles northwest of New Orleans.Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto identified the homeowner as an officer with…

Louisiana hasn't come as close to running out of hospital beds or ventilators as models predicted, an outcome officials attributed to a combination of the success of a stay-at-home order that has tamped down infections and the worst-case assumptions that were baked into the state's numbers.  In the hard-hit New Orleans region, for instance, state models…