Quick as a click: Lake QuickCare, the downtown walk-in clinic for minor illnesses, has begun offering online check-in for patients. Lake QuickCare is located at 307 Third St. and is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. Lake QuickCare patients will be seen by a nurse practitioner who is specially trained to treat common illnesses. Prescriptions will be written when they are necessary for treatment. Services are available to anyone 18 months and older, and the clinic accepts most insurance plans and private-pay patients. For more information, visit the clinic’s website here.
“Suspicious circumstances”: Families and friends who have lost loved ones under “suspicious circumstances” are planning a protest Tuesday against EBR Parish Coroner Shannon Cooper to make the public aware of what the group calls “wrongdoing.” The protest is scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Coroner’s Office, 4030 T.B. Hearndon St. Keith Traylor, spokesman for the group, says, “My son, Jeremy, died due to a drug overdose that we feel was covered up by the Coroner’s Office, and it’s time to take a stand against corruption by public officials.” Cooper is in a runoff with challenger Dr. William “Beau” Clark on the Nov. 19 ballot. Cooper did not return a call for comment.
Deflating: The NBA players rejected the league’s latest offer today and have begun the process to disband the union. The decision likely jeopardizes the season. “We’re prepared to file this antitrust action against the NBA,” union executive director Billy Hunter says. “That’s the best situation where players can get their due process.” He says players were not prepared to accept the NBA Commissioner David Stern’s ultimatum, saying they thought it was “extremely unfair.” The proposal rejected by the players called for a 50-50 split of basketball-related income and proposed a 72-game season beginning Dec. 15. Financially, both sides have lost hundreds of millions because of the games missed and the countless more that will be wiped out before play resumes. Read the full story by The Associated Press here.
Zuckerman “unbound”: The former boyfriend of a woman who accused Republican presidential contender Herman Cain of inappropriate sexual behavior said today that he and his then-girlfriend met the businessman in the late 1990s. At a press conference today in Shreveport, Victor Jay Zuckerman gave an account of an evening he, Sharon Bialek and Cain spent together in 1997 directly contradicts the candidate’s assertions that he had never met his accuser or heard her name. “At that party, Mr. Cain engaged both of us in conversation,” Zuckerman said at a news conference, describing an after-party Cain had invited them to in a hotel suite after a National Restaurant Association event in Chicago. Bialek became the first woman to publicly accuse Cain, a Georgia businessman, of inappropriate sexual conduct that allegedly transpired in the late 1990s, when he was chief executive of the National Restaurant Association. At least three other women have claimed that Cain sexually harassed them. Bialek is the only one of the four to go public with her accusations. Read the full story by The Associated Press here.
