Avoyelles, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette and Rapides sheriffs have filed lawsuits against multiple drug companies and some doctors for allegedly helping to make the opioid addiction an epidemic across the country. Attorney David Laborde says opioids were orginally intendended to be used for a short period of time,…
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Laborde says the settlement seeks money from the defendants to help opioid addicts get treatment.

Two elected officials in the village of Stanley were burned in a home explosion on Monday. DeSoto Sheriff Rodney Arbuckle says 92-year-old Dwena Henry, who is currently an alderwoman and former mayor, is fighting for her life. Arbuckle says Mrs Dwena is important to the community…
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Her daughter. Stanley Mayor Sharon Fletcher, was also injured.

LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center receives a six-million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study how to improve soldiers’ nutrition. Emelie Gunn has more…
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Authorities in Baton Rouge are expected to announce at a press conference this morning that 23-year-old Kenneth Gleason has been charged in the fatal shootings of two black men last week. Police have said they believe the homicides were racially motivated. Gleason was booked on drug charges over the weekend, but bonded out of jail.