09:30 Newscast, September 26th, 2017

Baton Rouge Representative Ted James says fellow House member Kenny Havard is wrong to suggest that the state should stop providing tax dollars to the Saints because some players refused to stand during the national anthem. He hopes this is just grandstanding, but suspects Havard is not alone with this sentiment:
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Havard said he doesn’t feel the Saints deserve rewards if the players aren’t going to be appreciative.

There are at least two restaurants which say they are no longer going to broadcast future NFL games because of the protests. They are Sarita’s Grill and Cantina in Denham Springs which says the programming will be barred until further notices. WOW Cafe & Wingery of St. Bernard in Chalmette also said on social media that decided to turn the Saints Panthers game off on Sunday because some players chose to sit during the anthem.

The Violence Policy Center says a new report shows that Louisiana ranks in the top five for women who are murdered by men. It found that in 2015, the state has the third highest rate in the country. Executive director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Mariah Wineski, says state and federal law prohibit many abusers from possessing firearms, but Louisiana lacks any consistent process for actually implementing these prohibitions..:
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She also blames inadequate funding for domestic violence services.

Northeast Louisiana has produced another hilarious reality show called Rednecks 4 Hire. It’s a show where three men do disgusting jobs for residents who have problems with things like rodents, bee hives, beaver damns, and just about anything. David Yelton says everything you see on the show actually happened the exact way it’s presented…:
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