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When University Medical Center in New Orleans was inundated with COVID patients during the first three surges, a unoccupied unit typically used for filming scenes from “NCIS: New Orleans” became the RICU — the respiratory intensive care unit. Read the full story
- 'Do you give a damn?' John Bel Edwards reissues mask mandate in dire COVID surge update
- Louisiana hospitals report more pediatric COVID patients 'than previous iterations' of virus
- How Louisiana's 4th COVID wave has hospitals 'past burnout': not enough equipment, staff or time
- Our Lady of Lourdes, hospital system to mandate COVID-19 vaccine for all staff by December
- Louisiana set to break record for COVID hospitalizations: 'Health care delivery is in peril'
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, the parent organization of Baton Rouge's Our Lady of the Lake hospitals, announced Tuesday morning that it will require all staff, contract employees and volunteers to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Read the full story
As Louisiana faces its worst surge of the coronavirus since the pandemic’s beginning, leaders from the sprawling Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady health system on Tuesday announced the most drastic action yet taken by any private hospital system in the state: a requirement that all employ… Read the full story
A Baton Rouge grandmother whose grandson killed her during a violent rampage Sunday morning was found with multiple stab wounds, severe bruising to her face and a plastic strap around her neck, according to an arrest report released Tuesday. Read the full story
Louisiana reported 128 new coronavirus hospitalizations Tuesday, hurtling the state into record-breaking territory with 2,112 total patients in hospitals across the state. Read the full story
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FBI agent exposed himself to girls, texted 'they have to be in their teens,' arrest documents say
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4-year-old dies after being accidentally shot by 12-year-old brother, EBRSO says
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Ascension Parish president gets COVID, has mild symptoms, urges residents to get vaccinated
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Attorney General Jeff Landry advises employees how to avoid school COVID restrictions
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Louisiana in line for $384 million for roads and bridges
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'I think we're going over': Seacor Power's first mate recounts desperate moments before capsizing
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Virtual students performed worse than in-person students on Louisiana standardized test
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Designer Kenneth Brown says he flexed his design muscle on Kim Mulkey's new Baton Rouge house
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