March 2021

La. colleges fail to meet harassment training mandate

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana’s public colleges are not meeting the requirements of a 2018 law aimed at combatting sexual harassment, with thousands of campus workers not taking a mandatory yearly antiharassment course.

Dems OK tighter income limits for COVID-19 relief

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Democrats agreed Wednesday to tighten the upper income limits at which people could qualify for stimulus checks, a Democratic official said, a major concession to moderates as partyleaders prepared to move their $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill through the Senate.

Pentagon: US contractor dies in rocket attack at Iraq base

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. contractor died Wednesday when at least 10 rockets slammed into an air base housing U.S. and other coalition troops in western Iraq, the Pentagon said.

General: Pentagon hesitated on sending National Guard to Capitol riot

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department took more than three hours to dispatch the National Guard to the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol despite a frantic request for reinforcement from police, according to testimony Wednesday that added to the finger-pointing about the government response.

Detectives look at SUV’s ‘black box’ from Tiger Woods crash

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Detectives are looking at data from the so-called “black box” of Tiger Woods’ SUV to get a clearer picture of what occurred during the Southern California rollover crash last week that seriously injured the golf star, authorities said Wednesday.

CDC recommends first one-dose vaccine for use

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a federal advisory panel within the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), voted unanimously Sunday to recommend the country’s third COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 and older. With that announcement, Louisiana expects its confirmed allotment of 37,900 doses of the one-shot, easier-to-use Johnson & Johnson vac-cine to be delivered some time this week.

LDEQ: Don’t commit crawfish pollution

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is reminding people not to commit crawfish pollution.

Authorities: One killed in oil well explosion

LONGVILLE (AP) — One person was killed when an oil well exploded in southwest Louisiana over the weekend, authorities said.

Critics: Cuomo apology ‘tone-deaf,’ ignores power imbalance

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — When she first arrived in Albany to work as a legislative aide in 2013, New York Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou had lawmakers grab her buttocks, suy: est she and her boss were “a hot duo” who should have sex, and peer into her office to check her out for a “hot or not” list. Niou, then a chief of staff in her late 20s, never reported it. She feared it would unfairly drag down her boss. But the experiences stayed with her. She bristled Monday at the response from Gov. Andrew Cuomo to allegations he sexually harassed two young women in state government, remarks some on social media called a “faux-pology” that blames victims for mis-interpreting his “good-natured”

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