Former four-term governor Edwin Edwards says he is well on his way to becoming the oldest governor of Louisiana, as he just turned 89-years-old on Sunday. Edwards’s youngest son Eli just turned 3, and he says it’s given him a chance to be a better father than he was to his first four children. He has some advice for young fathers…:
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Jimmy Davis, who died at the age of 102 in 2000, was Louisiana’s oldest living former governor.

The family of the East Baton Rouge Parish deputy who was critically injured in an ambush on police officers on July 17th says Nick Tullier is no longer on a breathing machine. James Tullier says everyday Deputy Tullier lives is a miracle and he urges people to please keep praying. Today is the 22nd day Deputy Tullier has been in the hospital sine the attack that claimed the lives of three other officers.

For the first time ever, Americans are expected to buy more bottled water than carbonated beverages this year, according to the market research firm Euromonitor. LSU Health New Orleans Professor of Family Medicine Dr. Herbert Muncie says this is good news…:
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The projection finds Americans will buy 27 gallons of bottled water over 26 gallons of soda, a year.

LSU research indicates feral hogs are contaminating some central Louisiana water bodies. Dr. Michael Kaller with the LSU School of Renewable Resources says these hogs, like other wildlife, are putting pathogens into the water through their waste…:
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Kaller says these hogs have always been in the area, but not in such high numbers.