Prescription drugs like Lortabs and Vicodin will now be much harder to get at the pharmacy, thanks to a new restrictive category set forth by the US Drug Enforcement Agency. LSU Health’s Emergency Medicine Chairman, Dr. Tom Arnold, says the feds are trying to slow down drug abuse…

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As a result, Arnold says there has already been an uptick in heroin use.

There’s been a rash of camp burglaries in the Chauvin/Cocodrie area, and now a couple of arrests have been made by the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office early Monday morning. Twenty-seven year-old Simon Pelligrin and 21 year-old Catelyn Trahan were each booked on 40 counts of simple burglary involving an estimated total of $40 thousand dollars worth of items.

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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is offering a reward of up to seven thousand dollars leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the illegal killing of a black bear in Concordia Parish, that was part of the Black Bear Restoration project.

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That’s LDWF spokesman Adam Einck.

So what does the Holiday shopping season going to look like shopping-wise? Well, shoppers-dot-org is predicting an 11 percent increase in online shopping sales. Many Louisiana residents have not start shopping yet, but some people we talked to say they’re almost half done…

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As for over-all sales, the National Retail Federation says that over all sales should be up about 4.1 percent.