The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals is reviewing concerns about water quality in the Tensas Parish town of St. Joseph. Residents have reported brown, murky water coming from faucets in the town. State Health Officer, Dr. Jimmy Guidry, says the system’s source water contains a level of iron that discolors the water…:
CUT 6 (08) “quite expensive”
He says the legislature would have to make water treatment a top priority before those funds are readily available.

Acadiana’s Cajun Groundhog, the nutria Pierre C. Shadeaux, predicts an early spring as he did not see his shadow on this Groundhog Day. Pierre came out of his house this morning in New Iberia in front of a huge crowd led by Daily Iberian Publisher Will Chapman. He says the young nutria forecasts a shorter winter for the fifth year in a row…:
CUT 3 (09) “mile temperatures”

LSU researchers are using body scanning technology to study ways better-fitting clothing could be developed. Casey Stannard, an assistant professor at LSU Ag’s Department of Apparel, Design and Merchandising, says right now a lot of companies work off of a dated hour glass figure — and so few people in the population these days actually have that shape…:
CUT 15 (06) “win-win for everyone”
She says they are looking for men and women to participate in the study, who would receive regular 3D body scans researchers can track and hopefully develop information they can pass on to the apparel industry.

The Attorney General’s Office has announced six more arrests of people involved in the Lafayette D.A. bribery scandal. A-G Jeff Landry says the corrupt practices that were being dismissed in this office were ignored by the previous Attorney General, Buddy Caldwell. He says it’s disturbing that action wasn’t taken earlier…
cut 10 (10) “our act”