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Law enforcement will be out in numbers this weekend looking for impaired drivers for the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign. Colleen Crain has the story.

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A tragic accident claimed the life of a two-year-old boy in Baton Rouge this week, when he ran in front of a moving car.  Amber Rollins, the director of kids and car safety, says there’s been an increase in these kinds of tragedies.

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President Trump signed the Big, Beautiful Bill into law yesterday.  Congress debated the bill for months, with a new requirement to Medicaid being a big point of contention. It requires those who are able to work to do so in order to receive benefits. Congressman Steve Scalise.

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But Democrats say the 900-billion dollars Medicaid will lose will leave 17 million Americans without health care coverage.  Reagan Carter, the director of health and policy and governmental affairs at the Louisiana Primary Care Association, says that will have a ripple effect on health care centers.

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