While the national smoking rate dropped to a new milestone, advocates in Louisiana acknowledge that there’s more work to do. Joe Gallinaro reports…
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Ruston High School two-sport star Ahmad Hudson has committed to play football at LSU and also wants to play hoops for coach Will Wade. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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While the Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living is hailing a new report from the New England Journal of Medical Evidence that shows the national smoking rate falling below ten-percent, it acknowledges that it has more work to do in the state. Interim Director Taslim van Hattum (HATE-um) says 14-percent of Louisiana adults smoke cigarettes, and that’s just the beginning.
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Van Hattum says cigarettes are not the only tobacco product that Tobacco Free Louisiana has to pay attention to these days.
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Van Hattom says among the keys to reducing those numbers even further is countering the aggressive advertising campaigns geared towards young people, because statistics show those ad campaigns are working.
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One of the top athletes in the country has committed to play football at LSU and he also wants to play for Will Wade and the Tigers men’s basketball team. Ruston High’s Ahmad Hudson is ranked as the nation’s top tight end in the country for the Class of 2027 and he’s also ranked as the best basketball player in the state. KNOE-TV Sports Director Aaron Dietrich…
Hudson led both the Ruston football and boys basketball teams to the state championship this past season. He caught 41 passes for 718 and had six touchdowns for the Bearcats on the football field and was recently named Mr. Basketball in Louisiana after averaging 20 points and 13 rebounds a game. Dietrich says Hudson wants to play both football and basketball at LSU…
Hudson’s father, Antonio Hudson, played on the LSU basketball team from 2002 to 2005. More than 30 power conference schools offered Hudson a scholarship and Dietrich says it came down to a Big Ten school and LSU…
Hudson still has one more season at Ruston before he arrives on LSU’s campus. LSU also received a commitment over the weekend from cornerback Lavonte Williams, a junior college transfer from South Carolina. He will be able to help the Tigers starting this year.
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If your pharmacist is from Louisiana, there’s a very good chance that he or she graduated from ULM. Dr. Gina Craft, the dean of the ULM College of Pharmacy, says 75-percent of the state’s pharmacy workforce are ULM graduates.
The ULM College of Pharmacy has a 100-percent job placement rate among its graduates – every single pharmacy student who graduates from ULM immediately lands a high-paying job. Dr. Craft says when the students graduate, they’re immediately ready to launch their careers.
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Craft says pharmacists play a very crucial healthcare role in rural areas.
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A 28-year-old Lafayette Parish man is behind bars after allegedly setting a fire that killed a nine-year-old girl. An apartment caught fire early Sunday morning in an unincorporated area of Duson. Two adults escaped the blaze, but fire fighters could not locate the girl in time as she died at a local hospital. Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s office spokesperson Chris Cormier says detectives believe Julian Jacob set the fire…
Cormier says Jacob was booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center and faces numerous charges…
No word on Jacob’s relationship with the people who lived inside the apartment that was set on fire. A motive is also not known.