It’s more playoff heartbreak for the Saints. For the third consecutive year, New Orleans’ season ended on the final play as Minnesota defeated the Black and Gold 26-20 in overtime. Quarterback Drew Brees says it was a hard-fought game, but it hurts to come up short…
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Brees is in the final year of his contract and could be a free agent in March.

There is some positive news out of New Orleans, LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine Professor Serena Aunon-Chancellor’s paper on an astronaut on the International Space Station being treated for a blood clot has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Aunon-Chancellor says the human body still surprises us in space…
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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries will stock 13 fishing sites this month with rainbow trout as part of the “Get Out and Fish” program. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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Mystery surrounds the decision by Alexandria Mayor Jeff Hall to put police chief Jerrod King on administrative leave. Hall’s administration calls it a personnel matter and assistant chief of police Farrell Gaspard has put in charge of the A-P-D. Chief King has used social media to publically support his officers, but it’s unclear if any of those posts have led to King being put on leave.