with Kelly P. Kissel | Metro editorWe appreciate your starting your week with us. Here's a bit of what's going on to start the final week of July.
The latest surge in COVID-19 cases has led Our Lady of the Lake Hospital to stopping setting non-emergency surgeries for the next three weeks, if the procedures would require an overnight hospital stay. Previously scheduled surgeries will be allowed to continue, and also those set on an outpatient basis. Blake Paterson reports here. Speaking of COVID, the state Department of Health has its new numbers out already. We keep track of them here. And to help combat the new surge, a state senator whose husband died from COVID held a vaccination event yesterday. Here's how it went, as told by our Jackie DeRobertis.
A big domino fell in the anticipated move of Texas and Oklahoma to the Southeastern Conference. The universities have told the Big 12 Conference that they want a divorce. It's a necessary step in the Longhorns and Sooners' plan to, it has been reported, join the SEC.
And while the Superdome is largely known as a sports venue, it also hosts major entertainment events, and hopes to get a big boost with its announcement of a new rights deal. | 
