In the wake of the Maxwell Gruver death on the LSU campus in 2017, the state approved tougher anti-hazing laws and now there’s a bill in Congress that would require college officials to publicly share information about student organizations that have been disciplined for hazing. Senator Bill Cassidy supports the legislation….
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The End All Hazing Act has been amended to the Higher Education Act.

A sheriff’s deputy and teacher in Livingston Parish are in jail on child porn charges. 44-year-old Dennis Perkins and 34-year-old Cynthia Perkins, a teacher at Westside Junior High in Walker, are each facing 60 counts of producing child pornography and two counts of first-degree rape. Dennis Perkins has also been booked on two counts of video voyeurism.

LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center is adding a metabolic surgery center that will allow the Baton Rouge facility to research new tools in the fight against obesity. Pennington’s Executive Director John Kirwan says the new program will help them research how lap band surgery can reverse Type Two diabetes.
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The program is expected to create 55 jobs and attract more than 20-million dollars in obesity research money.

For the first time, Louisianans will have the opportunity this Saturday on National Prescription Drug Take Back day to also dispose of their vaping and e-cigarette devices and cartridges. Assistant state health officer Doctor Joseph Kanter says here will be over 100 drop-off locations on Saturday and you can find all the details at….
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The state reports vaping products have been linked to 25 cases associated with a national outbreak of lung injury cases.