The Department of Children and Family Services says DSNAP benefits will continue to be distributed for a second month for the 11 parishes most impacted by the August flood. DCFS Secretary Marketa Garner Walters says they are just trying to help people in any way they can during this difficult recovery process…:
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She says recipients cards will be loaded by next Tuesday.

A state task force charged with tackling the opiod problem in Louisiana just had their first meeting. Department of Health spokesman Bob Johannessen says Louisiana has received more than $2 million in federal dollars to assist with this effort…:
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He says Louisiana has the seventh highest rate of painkiller prescriptions in the country.

The Department of Transportation is getting the message out to Louisiana motorists how to navigate a roundabout. Jeff Palermo has more…:
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The chief aide to US Senate candidate David Duke’s campaign has resigned. Mike Lawrence told the Baton Rouge Advocate that the two disagreed over how Duke should present his past as Imperial Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, but Duke refused to downplay it. Duke’s campaign has not done well according to several polls that show him with little support…most in the single digits.