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Parades are rolling across south Louisiana on this Fat Tuesday as revelers are enjoying the sunny skies and cool temperatures, catching beads and other items flying off of moving floats.

You won’t find your typical Mardi Gras festivities with floats and beads in Eunice today, but you will find colorful costumes and a chicken run. Teiko Foxx explains…
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The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services will no longer participate in the Summer EBT program. Louisiana Budget Project Executive Director Jan Moeller says the Summer EBT program helps feed nearly 600-thousand Louisiana children with food insecurity…
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But DCFS Secretary David Matlock says the state’s primary focus is for families to be self-sufficient.

The Get a Pulse on PAD campaign raises awareness of peripheral artery disease. Dr. Foluso Fakorede (fa-lou-so fak-o-ree-dee) at Cardiovascular Solutions of Central Mississippi says PAD affects millions of Americans who have never heard of the disease or its risks.
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Fakorede says pain when you walk, one extremity is cooler than the other, irregular hair and nail growth are symptoms.