By WAFB Staff | April 20, 2020 at 5:33 PM CDT - Updated April 20 at 5:38 PM AVOYELLES PARISH, La. (WAFB) - The warden of a Louisiana state prison has died of the novel coronavirus, the Louisiana Department of Corrections (DOC) confirms. Sandy McCain, warden of Raymond Laborde Correctional Center in Avoyelles Parish, died…
Louisiana hasn't come as close to running out of hospital beds or ventilators as models predicted, an outcome officials attributed to a combination of the success of a stay-at-home order that has tamped down infections and the worst-case assumptions that were baked into the state's numbers. In the hard-hit New Orleans region, for instance, state models…
Kataza the baboon. Facebook / Baboon Matters The City of Cape Town has asked the public not to feed a baboon that has relocated to Tokai. The baboon, known as Kataza or SK11, is slowly being integrated into the Tokai troop. Video footage, however, shows humans feeding Kataza. The City of Cape Town has requested that Kataza…
As SA Rugby moves to determine which franchises will go to Europe in future, Rassie Erasmus has noted several potential benefits for the local game should that route be followed.The national director of rugby believes the high world rankings of Wales, Ireland and Scotland mean PRO Rugby is competitive and that fans will eventually identify…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…