U.S. Senator John Kennedy has sent a letter to the Department of Revenue urging the state to seek back tax payments from Mike Edmonson after an audit found he lived rent free for the nine years when he served as Superintendent of State Police. Kennedy says the audit shows Edmonson received over 400-thousand dollars of freebees.
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The governor’s office says Kennedy is seeking headlines again and point out that he did nothing about Edmonson’s arrangement when he served as state treasurer.

CEO of the United Health Care of Lousiiana Joe Ochipinti says the state has seen a decrease in obesity, premature death rates and the number who are uninsured, but Louisiana still ranks 49th in their annual health rankings…
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Ochipinti says this should serve as a call of action to make changes in our lifestyles.

A Tulane researcher has landed a 414-thousand dollar federal grant to study why males are more vulnerable to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and addiction. Director of the Tulane University Brain Institute Jill Daniel says their study will look at how the prefrontal cortex of the brain produces undesired behavior…
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Daniel says if they can see how the brain produces more impulse control issues for males over females, it can lead to better treatment.