What's making news in Acadiana this morning
 | BY MIKE SMITH | Staff writer LAKE CHARLES – The White House on Tuesday issued a long-sought request for relief for southwest Louisiana more than a year after Hurricane Laura, providing hope that funding will soon arrive for faltering rebuilding efforts in a region devastated by four natural disasters and which has grown desperate in its pleas for help. Read more |
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 | BY KATIE GAGLIANO | Staff writer Ochsner Lafayette General is launching a mobile infusion site to provide high-risk COVID-19 patients monoclonal antibody treatments with the help of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Louisiana Department of Health. Read more |
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 | BY BLAKE PATERSON | Staff writer The day after Hurricane Ida tore through her LaPlace apartment, Shequita Jackson registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, hoping to qualify for enough assistance to rent a place while she rebuilt her life. Read more |
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 | By ADAM DAIGLE | Acadiana business editor More downtown Lafayette apartments are in the pipeline as a developer has begun converting the former mail processing building on Cypress Street into five units. Read more |
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 | By ANDREA GALLO and GORDON RUSSELL | Staff writers Louisiana health officials announced Tuesday that they are revoking Bob Dean's seven nursing-home licenses after he evacuated more than 800 nursing residents to a Tangipahoa Parish warehouse for Hurricane Ida, where four people died as conditions grew increasingly hellish over a period of days after the storm's passage. Read more |
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 | BY MARK BALLARD | Capitol Bureau editor Damage from Hurricane Ida was so great that Louisiana may delay for a month both the October and November elections. Read more |
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 | Keeping your home clean and sanitized is essential these days to try to keep germs out of the house. Mopping may not be the most fun chore … Read more |
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|  | If you've been missing your local coffee shop and their piping hot espresso, there's plenty of espresso makers, brews, and accessories you … Read more |
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|  | Exercise always seems like the last thing on the list that you can get done. Work, kids, chores — they all seem to come first. But ignoring… Read more |
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