One U.S. House district’s race is getting crowded, while potential candidates in another are waiting to see what a certain someone does. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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An invitation has been sent out to LSU’s 40 biggest athletic donors to meet at the governor’s mansion during the first week of August to discuss funding the university’s athletics programs. According to the event invitation, an alternative revenue generating opportunity that is the first of its kind will be presented to those in attendance.

LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center is looking into key drivers of chronic disease in rural parishes. They just completed a study looking at Franklin Parish, and found the percentage of adults who are overweight is significantly higher than the state average and so are the rates of high blood pressure and hypertension. Lead researcher Dr. Stephanie Broyles says the next task is to figure out why….

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Much of Louisiana is seeing daily rain showers, which leaves standing water. Agricultural Commissioner Mike Strain says if you have standing water on your property, get rid of it…

Cut 20 (14) “….where mosquitos breed”