A bill that would raise the texting or using social media while driving fine to $500 for a first offense is headed to the House floor for final legislative approval. Halen Doughty has more…:
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Legislation that would expand the number of diseases that could be treated with medical marijuana is headed to the governor’s desk to be signed into law.
Parks Senator Fred Mills says this measure is just about getting medication to the people who need it…:
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Governor Edwards is expected to sign the bill.

Researchers are going to the Gulf of Mexico to the site of the more than 88,000 gallons of oil that was spilled from a Shell platform. Ian MacDonald, an oceanographer at Florida State University, said their group was set up to study spills following the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010…:
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He says they’re going to monitor the spill and research how the oil might affect wildlife.

Wendy’s will offer self-serving kiosks at over 6-thousand of its fast food locations across the country by the end of this year. Tulane Business Professor Mark Rosa says this is what we can expect for the future and other fast food restaurants could move self-service because of higher minimum wages…:
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He feels those pushing for a higher minimum wage should be cautious, because this could lead to a loss of entry level jobs.