Storms, possibly severe, are heading toward the Tri-City area Sunday.
The National Weather Service says storms will move into the area after 1 p.m. Sunday.
The number of residents at Franklin's Legacy Healthcare confirmed as having COVID-19 is now 15, Coroner Eric Melancon reported Saturday. Five staff members are also COVID-19-positive.
St. Mary Parish's second COVID-19 fatality was an elderly woman who died Thursday afternoon at Ochsner St. Mary, Coroner Eric Melancon said.
The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service on Friday launched a new web tool allowing quick registration for economic impact payments for those who don’t normally file a tax return.
Legacy Helathcare in Franklin, where officials learned Wednesday that a resident had tested positive for COVID-19, now has eight cases after five more positive results were reported Friday.
Thibodaux Regional Health System has successfully obtained rapid testing capabilities that will enable the hospital’s laboratory to process COVID-19 specimens.
Eleven new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in St. Mary in the 24 hours ending at noon Friday, according to the Louisiana Office of Public Health.
St. Mary Parish residents filed 1,147 initial claims for unemployment benefits in the week ending April 4, according to the Louisiana Workforce Commission.
Front door security enhancements at eight schools were approved by the St. Mary Parish School Board during its monthly meeting Thursday at the Central Office Complex in Centerville.
The St. Mary Parish Levee District board zoomed through a meeting conducted Thursday with the Zoom teleconferencing application because of coronavirus restrictions.
Sports
The Daily Review/John Flores
Bill Lake shows a couple of good chinquapins caught this past week.
Social distancing is something fishermen have been doing since the invention of the hook. Don’t believe me? Why don’t anglers reveal their honey holes?
By By JOHN FLORES
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says social media posts warning of coronavirus-related fines for those caught fishing are just an April Fool's joke.
It’s inevitable that the current coronavirus outbreak will be compared to the epidemic in 1918, when a strain of “Spanish flu” infected 500 million people worldwide — about one-third of the planet’
By By JIM BRADSHAW
The Northern Parula is one species of songbirds nature lovers can enjoy during the annual bird migration.
The Daily Review/John Flores
Louisiana is considered to be one of the Top 5 birding states in the U.S.
By JOHN FLORES
The Northern Parula is one species of songbirds nature lovers can enjoy during the annual bird migration.
The Daily Review/John Flores
Louisiana is considered to be one of the Top 5 birding states in the U.S.
By JOHN FLORES
Lifestyle
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Alan Crochet (nee: Cecilia Lee Stevens) of Morgan City, a girl, Brooklyn Renee Crochet, on March 24 at Thibodaux Regional Medical Center.
Come Easter Sunday, eager children wake up to see if the Easter Bunny has visited their homes. For many families, Easter would not be the same without an annual egg hunt.
Jeanne Phillips
DEAR ABBY: My husband wants me to stop speaking to our adult children. He says they have both offended him, and he wants an apology from them.
By By Jeanne Phillips, ©United Features Syndicate
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