A study from the National Center for Health Statistics finds children eat about 12 percent of their daily calories on fast food. Emelie Gunn has more…..
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Sad news out of Grambling as Doris Robinson, the wife of legendary football coach Eddie Robinson, has passed away. Eric Gill reports…
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State Police say an attempted hit and run in Iberia Parish has left a Grant Parish woman dead. Master Trooper Brooks David says 35-year-old Angela Brown of Pollock crossed the center line of LA 86 and side swiped another vehicle…
He says as Brown tried to flee the scene, she ran off the road and struck a tree. She was pronounced dead at the scene. David says authorities have linked Brown to a second hit and run that occurred just before the fatal crash…
He says it’s believed Brown was involved in a hit and run crash in St. Martin Parish just before the Iberia crash that claimed her life. David says the investigation is ongoing and a toxicology sample was taken… (Impairment is believed to be a factor in the crashes.)
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The National Center for Health Statistics finds children consume an average of 12 percent of their daily calories from fast food. Professor with the LSU Health Sciences Center, Dr. Melinda Sothern, says the study shows younger children eat 9 percent of their calories at fast food establishments compared to 17 percent of teens, which shows parents of younger kids are more cognizant of what their kids eat…
Sothern says when studies like this come out, it could make parents more aware of what their teens are actually eating. She says with this research, she hopes to try to better understand the marketing associated with fast food because unhealthy food advertising is often targeted at teens and try to make healthy options less expensive.
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Sothern says the report showed no effect of poverty, so children from poorer families were the same across the board as kids coming from more well off families. She said the only difference they saw was by ethnicity.
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State Police have identified the man fatally shot by a St. Bernard Sheriff’s deputy after a Tuesday altercation. Trooper Evan Harrell says 21-year-old Tyrone Bass of New Orleans was shot dead after attacking a deputy with an object…
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He did not explain why the officer approached Bass. The injured deputy was released from the hospital a couple of hours after the incident. Harrell says during the initial altercation, the deputy was able to call for backup and more officers arrived on scene…
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He says investigators are working to determine how many officers shot at Bass and how many shots were fired. The deputy’s name and the type of object used in the attack have not been released. Harrell says State Police will conduct a thorough investigation to determine exactly what happened…
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Some sad news out of Grambling as Doris Robinson, the wife of legendary football coach Eddie Robinson, passed away this morning at the age of 96. A university spokesperson says Mrs. Robinson had been in the hospital after suffering from a recent illness. Grambling head football coach Broderick Fobbs says Mrs. Robinson meant a great deal to the school…
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Mrs. Robinson is referred to as the “Eternal First Lady of GSU Football”, having stood by her husband for over five decades as he coached the Tigers. Fobbs says in recent years, Mrs. Robinson’s declining health made it difficult for her to get out as much as she used to. But he says that doesn’t mean she didn’t keep up with the Tiger football program…
Fobbs says he first got to know Mrs. Robinson as a player at Grambling in the 90′s. He says she always looked at the football players for Grambling as her own kids…
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