Schools and public health officials fighting youth nicotine use find themselves going after the manufacturers. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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A Baton Rouge-area serial killer has finally been sentenced to life in prison for a 2017 drive-by murder. Sean Richardson has more.
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Sean Payton makes his return to the Superdome tonight as his Denver Broncos face a struggling Saints team. Jeff Palermo has more on Payton’s return…
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Nicotine use among teens in Louisiana remains at an alarming rate. A statewide survey finds that one out of every three high schoolers and one out of every five middle schoolers vape. Chrishelle Stipe with the Louisiana Public Health Institute says schools need to ramp up their efforts to warn kids about the dangers of vaping.
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Stipe is pinning a good portion of the blame on manufacturers of vape products, saying they’re specifically marketing their products towards children.
Stipe says makers of vape products are intentionally trying to get kids hooked on their products to increase their profits.
Under Louisiana law, you need to be 21 to buy any tobacco or nicotine product, including vaping devices. But Stipe says that’s not stopping parents from buying vape products for their kids, mistakenly thinking that those products are safer to use than cigarettes.
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Burn bans are now in effect for several parishes throughout Louisiana, as drought conditions persist. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says while October is traditionally the driest month in Louisiana, this October so far has been ridiculous.
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Keim says these tinder dry conditions will continue for the foreseeable future.
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Keim says the one thing that would reduce the risk of wildfire is a good drenching.
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The burn bans cover parishes in nearly every corner of the state.
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A Baton Rouge-area serial killer has been sentenced to life in prison for a 2017 drive-by murder. Ryan Sharpe killed 48-year-old Brad DeFranceschi, a Boy Scout leader and father of two, while he was doing yard work at the Avondale Scout Reservation in East Feliciana Parish. 20th Judicial District Attorney Sam D’Aquilla says the penalty for first-degree murder is life imprisonment or capital punishment…
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Sharpe was found guilty of first-degree murder by an East Feliciana jury in August, which deliberated for less than an hour. D’Aquella says this follows a previous conviction in 2019 that was overturned in 2020 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled nonunanimous jury verdicts unconstitutional.
D’Aquilla says he hopes Sharpe’s life sentence brings closure to the families of his victims after years of legal proceedings.
He’s also accused in the shooting deaths of 62-year-old Tommy Bass of East Feliciana and 66-year-old Carroll Breeden, who was gunned down in front of East Baton Rouge Parish home. Sharpe also allegedly shot Buck Hornsby in East Feliciana, but he survived the shooting.
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Sean Payton returns to the Superdome as his new team, the Denver Broncos, will battle the New Orleans Saints in Thursday night football. NFL analyst Mike Detillier of WWL Radio expects Payton will receive a mixed reaction from Who Dat Nation….
Payton was the head coach of the Saints for 15 years, guiding the team to its lone Super Bowl victory to cap off the 2009 season. Detillier says Payton arrived following Hurricane Katrina, but he quickly got the right players around him…
Detillier says Payton is an excellent game planner, motivator and knew what buttons to push to produce 10 winning seasons in 15 years…
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The Saints will be short-handed tonight when they take on the Denver Broncos. Rookie Spencer Rattler gets a second consecutive start at quarterback, but the team’s top two receivers Chris Olave and Rashid Shaheed are out and Taysom Hill is doubtful. Denver has one of the best defenses in the NFL and Coach Dennis Allen explains why…
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Bradyn Swinson is having a breakout season for the eighth-ranked LSU Tigers. Last Saturday, the senior defensive end had a career-high eight tackles and two sacks and was named SEC defensive line player of the week.
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Swinson says the huge win over Ole Miss is now in the rear-view mirror, and that the competition doesn’t get any easier from here on out.
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Swinson says the team took time to celebrate the Ole Miss win; but now, the focus is on the Arkansas Razorbacks.
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Kickoff from Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville Saturday is six p-m.