10:30 LRN Newscast Aug 16

Census numbers have been tabulated and they show many south Louisiana parishes have grown in population size, while many north Louisiana parishes are seeing a decline. Demographer Greg Rigamer says that means the congressional districts for Mike Johnson and Julia Letlow will grow in size and in south Louisiana, they will shrink…

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There’s been a rush in Louisiana to get vaccinated as the state approaches three-thousand COVID patients in the hospital. Tulane Epidemiologist Doctor Susan Hassig says the vaccine is our best weapon against COVID…

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The state health department is making third doses of the COVID-19 vaccine available to people with moderately to severely compromised immune systems.

The White House has urged OPEC to boost production of crude oil to meet the United States’ demands for energy. Domestic producers are disappointed with the Biden administration’s policy of importing rather than producing. Louisiana Oil and Gas Association President Mike Moncla says the White House is beating back years of progress…

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The long thought belief that your metabolism declines after your teens is not necessarily true according to new research out of LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Director of Ingestive Behavior at Pennington, Dr. Corby Martin says for the most part your metabolism stays the same until your 60s.

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The study included 66-hundred participants from ages one week to 95 years old in 29 different countries.