Former Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco is battling an incurable form of liver cancer. It traveled from her eye after she was diagnosed in 2011 with ocular melanoma, a dangerous and rare cancer. Chief of Surgical Oncology at LSU Health New Orleans Dr. Adam Riker says the key is to get Blanco’s immune system strong to slow the cancer growth…:
Cut 3 (10) “tumor cells”
The New Iberia native served as Louisiana’s first female governor from 2004 to 2008, and was criticized for her handling of Hurricane Katrina. But UL Lafayette Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says that has been muted after looking back at the magnitude of the storm.:
Cut 5 (06) “for them”
Blanco is 74.
Gas prices in Louisiana are on a steady downward trend, as the current statewide average of $2.26 is 4 cents lower on the week. AAA Fuel Analyst Don Redman says they expect gasoline demand to weaken throughout the winter, which translates to better prices at the pump…:
Cut 7 (05) “Christmas Holidays”
Prices could slip to below 2.00 a gallon to start 2018.
Totals are in for Friday’s historic snow event and Kentwood saw the most in the state with 6 and a half inches. That’s according to Shawn O’Neil with the National Weather Service in Slidell says this is the first measurable snow for south Louisiana since December of 2008.
Baton Rouge saw three and a half inches of snow and areas of Lake Pontchartrain even saw some of the white stuff.