Governor Bobby Jindal has joined the viral video craze that other Republican presidential candidates are participating in. In a video produced by Buzzfeed, Jindal is in a push-up competition against “the issues” which are taxes, Obamacare, and Jindal’s own widely panned response to the State of Union in 2009.
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That’s Political Analyst Bernie Pinsonat.

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, along with Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, introduced legislation that addresses the issues in the nation’s care and treatment of mental illness. Studies indicate that one in five American adults have a serious form of it, and Cassidy says everyone is impacted in some way…
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Cassidy had been working on the bill for four years; and introduced it less than two weeks after the Lafayette Theatre shooting.
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A suspected drunk driver has struck and killed a pedestrian on LA 42 in Ascension Parish last night. State Trooper Bryan Lee says 41-year-old J Thomas Bowers was traveling eastbound on the road and failed to stop as Richard Billingsley was attempting to push a disabled vehicle off the road.
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Billingsley was 18. Bowers was booked with second-offense DWI.

A member of the Louisiana house has died. Baton Rouge Representative Alfred Williams passed away Tuesday night, following complications following a knee surgery. Fellow Baton Rouge Representative Pat Smith says Williams will be sorely missed….
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Hehad been a member of the Louisiana House since 2011, after serving on the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board. Williams was 64.