A common New Years Resolution is to diet and exercise, but those are often hard for people to keep. Kelley Ray reports on alternatives…:
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Governor John Bel Edwards says one of his goals in 2018 is to get more people employed and covered under an employer sponsored health care plan:
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Edwards is celebrating the fact that the state will not have to make mid-year cuts for the first time in nearly a decade.

New Orleans is in for a big weekend as Alabama and Clemson fans are in town for the Sugar Bowl Monday, and once again ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve will be in The Big Easy to count down in the Central Time Zone. Kristian Sonnier is with the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau Imagine Dragons and Walk the Moon will be part of the countdown show..:
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He says the Sugar Bowl is sold out and the city is near capacity for the weekend.

The LSU football team leaves for Orlando today for the New Years Day Citrus Bowl against Notre Dame. But the big story today is the reports that offensive coordinator Matt Canada will leave LSU soon after the game. Rumors of tension between he and Head Coach Ed Orgeron have been swirling since the Tigers upset loss to Troy this season. Canada is the highest paid offensive coordinator in college football.