HOLIDAY HEADS-UP: Twenty-one months into the coronavirus pandemic, Louisiana set another ignominious record Wednesday, reporting its highest single-day increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases. (See the trend lines.)
For once, Louisiana was not an outlier: The United States overall also logged its biggest increase in new COVID cases.
Even the lions at Audubon Zoo are coming down with the disease.
Check out all our pandemic coverage.
POLICE PAYOUT: In death, Keeven Robinson was worth $308,500, according to a court agreement reached between the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office and the wife and widow of the 22-year-old drug suspect whom deputies killed in Old Jefferson on May 10, 2018.
A BOURBON STREET STORY: Two guys met in a bar on Bourbon Street on Christmas Eve. One agreed to sell the other marijuana for $30. Money changed hands, but the weed was fake. The buyer objected. The dealer refunded his money. The buyer pulled a knife and partially disemboweled the dealer.
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A little over $300,000 is the amount Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto’s office has agreed to pay to settle a pair of federal lawsuits over the death of Keeven Robinson, who died in a struggle with narcotics deputies in 2018 after a foot chase through Old Jefferson backyards. Read more