Americans are expected to buy more bottled water than soda for the first time ever this year. Emelie Gunn has more…
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Could Hillary Clinton’s growing lead in the polls affect the U.S. Senate race in Louisiana? Jeff Palermo has more…
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Former four-term governor Edwin Edwards turned 89 on Sunday. Halen Doughty has more…
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For the first time ever, Americans are expected to buy more bottled water than carbonated beverages this year, according to the market research firm Euromonitor. LSU Health New Orleans Professor of Family Medicine Dr. Herbert Muncie says it’s good news that people are trying to stay away from high calorie sodas.
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The projection finds Americans will buy 27 gallons of bottled water over 26 gallons of soda, a year. Muncie says we’ve been seeing this trend slowly creeping up over the last few years and he expects it to continue. He says besides the health benefits, many people are switching to bottled water because recent tap water quality scares in other states.
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Muncie says parents should be influencing their kids to pick up a water bottle rather than a soda.
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LSU research indicates feral hogs are contaminating some central Louisiana water bodies. Dr. Michael Kaller with the LSU School of Renewable Resources says these hogs, like other wildlife, are putting pathogens into the water through their waste.
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Kaller says they looked at bodies of water between Alexandria and Natchitoches. He says these pathogens can pose serious health risks if someone ingests them, but he says some can also be absorbed through the skin.
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Kaller says these hogs have always been in the area, but not in such high numbers. He says population control is needed to keep contamination levels down.
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Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is leading in the national polls over Donald Trump, so could that affect the U.S. Senate race in Louisiana? University of Louisiana at Lafayette Political Science Professor Pearson Cross doesn’t think it will have much impact, because there are many highly qualified GOP candidates on the ballot.
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But Cross expects Republican candidates will stay away from supporting Trump, if he continues to drop in the polls.
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Cross says he’d be surprised if we saw voter turnout as high as 55-percent because both presidential candidates have such high unfavorability ratings. He says there is a chance that the Democrats in the race for Senate might be able to capitalize from Trump’s problems with popularity.
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Former four-term governor Edwin Edwards says he is well on his way to becoming the oldest governor of Louisiana, as he just turned 89-years-old on Sunday. Edwards’s youngest son Eli just turned 3, and he says it’s given him a chance to be a better father than he was to his first four children. He has some advice for young fathers.
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Edwards is still moving around quite well for someone who is pushing 90. Former-governor Jimmy Davis lived to be Louisiana’s oldest living former governor. He died at the age of 102 in 2000. Edwards says he believes he’ll live to see 100. He says lifestyle contributes to a person’s ability to get around in their later years.
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Edwards was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for 26 counts of racketeering, extortion, money laundering, and fraud. He says the judges probably thought it would be a life sentence, but he was released in 2011. He says the sentence killed him politically, but not physically.
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LSU’s first full squad workout in full pads is this morning as the Tigers continue preparations for the season opener against Wisconsin. Many are wondering if the Tigers can greatly improve a pass offense that ranked 105th in the country last season. Junior wide receiver Malachi Dupre says the pieces are there to get it done…
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Dupre says the receiving corp and quarterback Brandon Harris are more mature this year, which should lead to positive results on the football field…
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Wide out Travin Dural is back healthy for his senior season after suffering a season-ending hamstring injury in the loss to Ole Miss. Dural says it took eight months to recover from that injury, but feels good as the team begins full squad workouts today…
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