BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 10 -- Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued the following news release on April 9: * * * - Task Force takes action on public health directives, including compliance of Louisiana abortion clinics * * * In an effort to help ensure the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) can remain focused on fighting the novel coronavirus in our state, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced he has activated a new task force aimed at ensuring consistent enforceme  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 11 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the creation of the Louisiana COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, which will look at how health inequities are affecting communities that are most impacted by the coronavirus. "We know that right now 70 percent of our deaths in Louisiana from coronavirus are African Americans. This is a disturbing trend and one that deserves our attention, which is why we are engagi  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 8 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a proclamation related to unemployment and other issues related to the Louisiana Workforce Commission, as it seeks to manage the influx in unemployment claims due to the coronavirus outbreak. The proclamation addresses various issues related to unemployment and workers' compensation and also deems health care workers and first responders who work for the state as essen  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 10 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: * * * - Money will help to feed more than 30,000 children in Baton Rouge through the summer * * * Gov. John Bel Edwards has approved the first grant from the Governor's COVID-19 Response Fund, a gift that will help a nonprofit feed thousands of children through the summer across South Louisiana. The Governor's Fund issued a $100,000 grant to the Three O'Clock Project, which expanded its meal d  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 6 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on April 4: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that Vice President Mike Pence confirmed Louisiana will receive an additional 200 ventilators from the federal Strategic National Stockpile in response to the coronavirus pandemic. With this commitment, Louisiana will have received a total of 350 ventilators from SNS. They are expected to arrive soon. Today's reported positive cases and deaths: Cases: 12  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 7 -- Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued the following news release on April 6: * * * - AG Jeff Landry and his LADOJ Team secure 8,000 packs of azithromycin and another 75,000 tablets of hydroxychloroquine sulfate in addition to the 400,000 tablets of hydroxychloroquine donated last week. - AG Jeff Landry also reminds doctors and medical professionals of legal immunity for healthcare providers acting during a public health emergency. * * * At a press   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 10 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Hurricanes and flooding are an inevitable part of living in the South, but what if there were a way to speed up the reconnaissance time after a natural disaster? LSU Civil & Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Navid Jafari and LSU Department of Environmental Sciences Professor Nina Lam are working with Texas A&M (TAMU) faculty to find a way to quickly gather data after a disaster using t  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 3 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news release: An invasive species of snails has wiped out a 50-acre field of rice, the first time the pest has been known to do that in Louisiana. LSU AgCenter entomologist Blake Wilson said damaged rice and apple snails were found throughout the field. "There was no trace of rice. If you didn't know better, you'd think it was a snail production farm," Wilson said. Wilson sai  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 9 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: New research suggests that large-scale environmental factors influence the size of one of the ocean's most abundant forage species. Recently, scientists from LSU, NOAA, the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science evaluated large-scale ecosystem dynamics influencing growth of menhaden in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. They found t  more