11:30 AM Newscast

New Orleans Police say 21-year-old Kentrell Baham faces a second-degree murder charge after fatally shooting a Walmart employee last night inside the store. A second victim was shot in the foot.  NOPD Superintendent Shaun Ferguson did not provide a motive on what led to the shooting.
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Today the store is closed and grief counselors are available for employees.
The DASH diet has been ranked as one of the top popular diets by US News and World Report.  The diet was developed by researchers at LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center.  The DASH diet ranked only behind the Mediterranean diet.  Chief of dietary assessment Catherine Champagne says the ranking was very close.
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The Keto Diet ranked last of the 35 diets listed.

Louisiana’s population declined by nearly 11,000 residents from 2018 to 2019 according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates.  26,000 people moved out of Louisiana to another state last year, the 6th highest number in the nation despite Louisiana’s relatively small total population. Demographer Greg Rigamer says blame the local economy…

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Texas was the biggest recipient of Louisiana’s ex-pats and led the nation in total population growth at 367,000 new residents.

There are concerns Louisiana could see a second peak in the flu season sometime in late January/early February because a new strain of flu is beginning to pick up steam in Louisiana.  Flu A is more adaptive and mutates more frequently than Flu B, but science aside Office of Public Health Assistant Secretary Dr. Alex Billioux says the most important thing is…

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