Former LSU Tiger and Former NBA Star forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis was sentenced by a federal judge yesterday to 40 months in prison for his November 20-23 conviction in an alleged health care fraud scheme. Twenty-two people, 18 of them former players, have been sentenced in the case, for filing false medical claims with the NBA Players’ Health and Benefit Welfare Plan.
The Mayor of West Monroe says she’s doing all she can to keep Glenwood Regional Hospital open.
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Governor Jeff Landry visited Louisiana Troops at the Texas border yesterday. Answering questions about the impact of illegal immigration on Louisiana, Landry says he is especially interested in knowing how much pressure has been placed on the Department of Corrections. Has issued an executive order for impact data from all of Louisiana’s Department Secretaries.
LSU Health New Orleans has been granted a patent for a test that greatly improves the detection of a life-threatening disease in premature babies. Twenty babies are born at risk for Necrotizing enterocolitis or NEC in Louisiana every day and it affects somewhere between 9,000 and 12,000 each year. Inventor of NEC Detect, Dr. Sunyoung Kim…
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