The State Department of Children and Family Services reports that the number of babies born in Louisiana who are exposed to alcohol and drugs while in the womb has tripled from 2008 to 2016. Assistant Secretary for Child Welfare Rhenda Hodnett says last year, that number reached nearly 17-hundred..:
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Hodnett says DCFS works to push prevention, awareness, and intervention for children born addicted to drugs.

Is LSU’s suspension on Greek activities in the wake of the death of a pledge violating the constitution? Attorney Scott Sternberg says telling an organization that they can’t have a group gathering in a public forum, where everyone else can, is incredibly problematic…:
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Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the TV host bashed the health care plan being pushed by US Senator Bill Cassidy. Previously, Cassidy appeared on the show when he was touting a plan that would pass the Jimmy Kimmel Test. But Kimmel called he bill a scam that’s trying to sneak in confusing language which does nothing they claim it does…:
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Cassidy responded soon after on CNN and implied Kimmel didn’t understand the bill.

A former BREC Commissioner was found shot to death outside of his home in Pride at around 5:45 Tuesday night. East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office Spokesperson Casey Rayborn Hicks says when police arrived they attempted to resuscitate the man, 66-year-old Carroll Breeden, but he died at the scene:
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She urges anyone who may have seen something to contact the police.