The Advocate's Top Headlines

with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editor

Good morning. Some of our top headlines to kick off your Friday …

Life-saving transplants

It took three liver transplants for Baby Briggs to get a second chance on life. And in Louisiana, which saw a record number of organ donors last year, there are more stories like his, as Jacqueline DeRobertis reports in this emotional deep-dive.

Harsh words

The mother of Ronald Greene sent a sharply worded letter to the head of Louisiana State Police that echoed her demand for justice and questioned the agency's commitment to hold troopers accountable for the violent arrest that left her son dead. Lea Skene and John Simerman have the story. 

No mask mandate for now

Despite a COVID surge that's outpaced all others in Louisiana and hospitalized a record number of children for the coronavirus, Gov. John Bel Edwards is holding off on a statewide mask mandate for the time being. Blake Paterson covered the announcement, which came Thursday as part of the governor's latest pandemic presser, which you can read about here. 

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