The lawmakers who will sit on the TOPS task force have been announced. Halen Doughty has more…:
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State Police say they are investigating an officer involved shooting out of Red River Parish. They say preliminary investigations show the Sheriff’s Department went on a residence south of Coushatta in reference to a welfare concern, when they found a male subject who armed himself with a gun. Shots were then fired by both sides, and the subject was killed and a deputy injured. The investigation is ongoing.

An expecting mom’s diet can have huge impacts on the health of her baby. Dr. Nick Broskey with the LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center says a mom’s lifestyle can impact their baby’s metabolism and lifelong risk for obesity and other chronic diseases…:
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Broskey says their IMAGINE study will assess whether these moms give birth to babies with a higher risk for disease and obesity, and they’re recruiting at Pennington women with gestational diabetes.

The state Department of Transportation is discussing the possibility of widening I-12 in the western part of St. Tammany Parish between Mandeville and Covington. Jennifer Branton with DOTD says there are two proposals in the works to add one lane to the east and westbound lanes..:
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