As the military, once again, looks to reduce the number of troops at the Fort Polk Army base, the Army is holding a meeting tonight to listen to concerns about the potential effects a troop reduction could have on the area. Eric Gill reports…
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It looks like north Louisiana is in for yet another winter weather event Wednesday night into Thursday. Jeff Palermo reports…:
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A new study suggests people who sleep longer face a greater risk of having a stroke. Michelle Southern reports.
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As the military, once again, looks to reduce the number of troops at the Fort Polk Army base, the Army is holding a meeting tonight to listen to concerns about the potential effects a troop reduction could have on the area. Fort Polk Progress Chairman, Michael Reese, says the listening session is the final event in their evaluation process. He says they will host three events in Leesville, Lake Charles, and Alexandria…
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Reese says these events will show the Army the breadth of support Fort Polk enjoys and will be something unique they won’t see at other installations. The military is considering troop reductions at 30 bases nationwide. He says Fort Polk faced a reduction last year and the base only lost around 250 troops…
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Reese says attendence at these events is very key and critical to there mission of avoiding massive troop reductions at Fort Polk. He says if you can attend one of the three events, your presence could speak volumes to the Army…
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Higher Education Commissioner Joe Rallo says Governor Jindal’s proposed budget is about 200-million dollars short of what’s needed to fully fund the state’s public college and universities. Rallo says if the funding situation doesn’t change, campus leaders will have to make some tough decisions
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The state’s budget problems have raised concerns that one possible solution is to close college campuses. But Rallo says the state will not see the kind of savings some might expect by shutting down a school
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He says higher education leaders are looking at various options to improve their funding situation, one idea that’s been thrown on the white board is to privatize some public universities
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A new study suggests people who sleep longer face a greater risk of having a stroke. Researchers followed patients for 10 years and found that someone 63 or older who sleeps more than eight hours a day is 46 percent likelier to suffer a stroke in the next decade than adults who sleep for 6-8 hours. Dr. Caroline Barton is an assistant professor of neurology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine…:
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Barton says you can’t diagnose a stroke before it happens but studies like this help give doctors clues as to what might be causing them. She says stability of sleep as a trait is very important…:
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The findings were published in the journal Neurology. Barton says the study also noted that if someone had a significant change in their sleeping habits it was a bad sign…:
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It looks like north Louisiana is in for yet another winter weather event Wednesday night into Thursday. Meteorologist Davyon Hill with the National Weather Service in Shreveport says a cold front is moving through late this evening into tomorrow bringing some rain along with it and a massive temperature drop behind it…:
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Hill says this line of a possible wintry mix is from Natchitoches to Monroe and northwest of that…:
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Hill says central Louisiana could get some freezing rain and as you go north the risk for sleet and possibly some snow gets higher. He says this could once again hamper traffic conditions…:
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LSU sophomore guard Tim Quarterman is the SEC player of the week. Quarterman had a triple-double on over the weekend, the first one in LSU’s history since Shaquille O’ Neal did it in 1992. Quarterman had 18 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists against Ole Miss on Saturday and he didn’t know he was close to accomplishing the feat…
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Quarterman is the third player in LSU history to record a triple-double, Shaquille O’ Neal and Pete Maravich are the other two. Quarterman says his mother is really proud of what he did…
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Quarterman is averaging 12 points and five rebounds a game this season, after averaging only two and a half points a game last year. The Georgia native says positive conservations he had with Coach Johnny Jones during the offseason gave him the confidence he can have a big impact on this year’s team
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