The Advocate's Top Headlines

with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editor

Good morning. Here's what our reporters have been writing about this weekend …

Vax mandate paused

The court put a temporary stop to a federal order for companies with 100 or more employees to mandate COVID vaccines or weekly testing. Louisiana's AG filed the legal challenge along with a host of Republican-leaning states and private businesses, and a trio of appellate judges agreed to put a pause on the policy, which was set to go into effect in January.

Elyse Carmosino breaks it down for us here. 

Dissection raises legal, ethical questions

The contract language may have allowed for the dissection of a WWII veteran's body in front of a paying audience, but that doesn't mean it was right. In this story, Lea Skene — who's been covering the unsettling afterlife of David Saunders' corpse — delves into the ethical and legal question raised by the commercial use of a body donated to science. 

Cash claims

Some $5.6 million in uncashed state income tax refunds is owed to 22,000 people and businesses. Liam Pierce explains how to find out if some is yours to claim. 

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