DEATH MARCH: The crisis may be over. But three months after safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines were first made available to anyone who wants them, the death rate remains stubbornly high in some parts of Louisiana. One of them is Lake Charles.
LET ELSA GO: Tropical Storm Elsa weakened slightly Monday as it delivered heavy rain to western Cuba and headed toward Key West, Florida. Forecasters said the fifth named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season would ride up the Florida Gulf Coast before making U.S. landfall on Wednesday.
'HAIL, POTHOLES!' The Mystic Krewe of Conus, the newest Mardi Gras season marching group in New Orleans, took to the steamy streets of the French Quarter on Monday afternoon, leapfrogging from one watering hole to another as it satirized New Orleans’ current plague of potholes and road construction. (We can't make this stuff up.)
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Tropical Storm Elsa weakened slightly as it brings heavy rain to western Cuba and heads toward the Key West Florida Monday, the National Hurricane Center reports. Read more
