Elderly, disabled to get priority in flood recovery plan

BATON ROUGE - Fixing flood-damaged homes owned by thousands of elderly or disabled residents would be Louisiana's first priority under a plan for spending the state's initial allocation of $400 million in federal flood recovery funds.Only a fraction of the state's flood victims can benefit from the spending plan endorsed Friday by a task force formed by Gov. John Bel Edwards.Edwards' administration estimates more than 112,000 homes were damaged or destroyed by floods in March and August. Pat For