Governor John Bel Edwards was hammered by Republicans in Congress during a hearing on the response effort following the 2016 floods — a situation he believes was motivated by partisan politics. Baton Rouge Republican Congressman Garret Graves blames the Edwards administration for the delay in dispensing the $1.6 billion Congress provided for flood recovery. But the governor says those are false comments that aren’t helping…:
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The comments were made on the Jim Engster Show.

US Senator Bill Cassidy is presenting an obesity fighting bill which would allow Medicare to cover the cost of new prescription drugs for chronic weigh management. He says healthcare costs related to obesity total nearly $200 billion each year, and if someone loses weight, they get healthier..
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The state’s newly established Opioid Abuse Prevention Fund seeks to end the opioid epidemic. Jeff Palermo has more…:
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The Lake Charles Police Department is seeking information on a quadruple shooting that left one person dead, and three injured including one critically. They say it happened around 4am.

In the ongoing trial of former reality star Will Hayden in Baton Rouge, the jury heard disturbing testimony from a teenager who claimed she’d been raped by the accused when she was 12 or 13. The Suns of Guns star pleaded not guilty to multiple aggravated rape charges.