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Deaths, worries about assistance mount after Hurricane Laura

by Associated Press
| August 31, 2020 3:27 PM

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — In a matter of hours last week, Hurricane Laura tore through the tire shop Layla Winbush's family started just under a year ago, reducing most of it to rubble and scattering hundreds of tires across the lot. The storm also damaged her home, which now reeks of mold.

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