A new law will go into effect on January first that says commercial insurers must cover the cost of Bariatric surgery. Brooke Thorington explains.
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Governor Landry plans to send Louisiana National Guard soldiers back to the U-S Mexico border. Louisiana National Guard soldiers spent three months helping with border patrols, but the mission ended earlier this month. Landry says Texas has asked the state to send engineer soldiers so Louisiana will spend 800-thousand dollars to have Louisiana National Guard there until mid-November.

The Denka Performance Elastomer plant in St. John the Baptist Parish is facing a 90-day deadline from the federal EPA to lower its emissions that community activists say is leading to higher cancer rates. But Louisiana DEQ Secretary Aurelia Giacometto says the state will give Denka two years to lower its emissions…
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Denka says the plant does not pose a public health threat and they’ve already spent 35-million dollars on emission controls.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has cited six fishermen for illegally catching 120 red snapper of which 97 were undersized in Plaquemines Parish. The men face thousands of dollars in fines. LDWF Captain Tim Fox says 33-year-old Encarnacion Lopez of Chalmette along with five others who were illegal immigrants were issued citations.
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Fox says Red snapper fishing is tightly regulated to ensure sustainable populations, and each angler is allowed to only catch four a day and must be over 16 inches.