The state health department launches a new campaign to encourage Louisianans to get up to date on their vaccinations, especially in northeast Louisiana. Teiko Foxx has more…
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Governor John Bel Edwards and First Lady Donna Edwards are mourning the death of Father Mark Beard, the pastor at St. Helena Catholic Church in Amite, the home parish of the Edwards. Beard died in a car crash yesterday just over the state line in Mississippi. He was known as a dynamic priest. Father Beard was 62.

An eight-year-old girl in Franklin Parish is being called a hero after she helped her 83-year-old great grandfather survive after they were both thrown from a four-wheeler. The elderly man was pinned underneath and Alli Glass helped position him to make sure he could breath. Sheriff Kevin Cobb says the eight year old than ran over a half a mile to go get help…
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Cobb has made Alli an honorary sheriff’s deputy in Franklin Parish.

A new study co-authored by a Tulane researcher has found one beer a day is enough to increase blood pressure. But what if you are a wine drinker? Doctor Paul Whelton says when it comes to alcohol…
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Whelton says this study suggests that people battling high blood pressure may benefit the most from low to no alcohol consumption.