A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds Louisiana’s obesity rate at 35 percent, but Department of Health and Hospitals Assistant Secretary of Public Health JT Lane says they’d like to see it lower. He says by implementing “Well Spots,” in over one-thousand businesses statewide, they’re making a conscious effort to help people live healthier lives…

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The obesity rate for women in the state is 36-percent and for men it’s 33-percent.

Early voting ends tomorrow and Secretary of State Tom Schedler urges everyone to go out and cast your ballot. Schedler says the number of early voters in the runoff is outpacing what we saw in the primary…

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He says 90% of people who have early voted for the runoff election, also voted in the October 24th primary.

It looks like Republican gubernatorial candidate David Vitter is bringing some star power to his campaign. His latest campaign commercial features “Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson and continues Vitter’s theme of redemption from his prostitution scandal. It shows both men dressed in camouflage standing in front of a hunting vehicle. In the spot, Robertson says, “I know he’s made some mistakes, but who hasn’t?”

Ready for mudbugs? Crawfish are already starting to pop up in stores across some coastal parishes in Louisiana. Michelle Southern reports…:

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