Kenner Police say a man is behind bars in connection with dismembered body parts that were discovered near the Reserve Canal off I-10. Chief Michael Glaser says detectives questioned the victim’s roommate, 44-year-old Viusqui Perez-Espinosa; who’d been jealous over a woman…:
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27-year-old Ivis Portales-Lara is identified as the victim.

St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Randy Smith says Slidell homeowner Shane Hicks will not face any charges for fatally shooting 22-year-old Seth Flores on the front yard of his home just after midnight on Tuesday…
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Smith says Hicks shot Flores when he lunged towards him.

A Tulane University study found that ridding your home of cockroaches can help dramatically reduce asthma symptoms in children. Tulane University Public Health and Tropical Medicine Epidemiologist Felicia Rabito says they learned of these of results by puting cockroach bait in the homes of low income families…
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Rabito says sthma suffers can be highly senstive to cockroach salivia, skin and droppings.

Researchers at the University of Vermont have found through a study that’s there’s a 13-percent lower risk of death for individuals if they consume hot peppers. But Doctor Benjamin Littenberg says the findings don’t mean you should start eating peppers if you don’t like them…
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Littenberg says it appears peppers can reduce the amount of inflammation in the body.