US Senator John Kennedy calls for the Louisiana Department of Health and Secretary Dr. Rebekah Gee to do their job by reducing the amoung of state dollars for Medicaid. Halen Doughty has more…
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State Police say an 18-year-old lost her life in a one-vehicle wreck south of Newellton, which is in Tensas Parish. The crash occurred yesterday morning when Lera South of Newelton apparently ran off the road while traveling around a left hand curve on Louisiana Highway 605. South was pronounced dead at a local hospital .

Baton Rouge Congressman Garret Graves has been named as Chairman of the House Water Resources Subcommittee. Graves, who once served as former Governor Bobby Jindal’s top aide on coastal issues, says he’ll demand that the Army Corp of Engineers delivers on flood protection and coastal restoration projections or give the funds to a local agency…
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Louisiana-based C-C’s Coffee House plans to have 50 locations open by the end of the year and triple the size of its company in three to five years. Director of licensing expansion, Mark Verges, saysnew locations will be popping up across Louisiana over the next few weeks and they plan to expand into Texas and Alabama…
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The first C-C’s opened in 1995 in New Orleans.