The Louisiana Department of Health tested the drinking water at 12 elementary schools built before 1986 and did not find heightened levels of lead. State Health Officer Doctor Jimmy Guidry says if elevated levels of lead were found in the drinking water, repairs would be needed…
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Guidry says the legislature requested the testing to get better idea how aging infrastructure is impacting drinking water quality.

LSU Health New Orleans is the recipient of a one-point-three million dollar federal grant to pay for the training of sexual assault nurse examiners in 12 parishes in southeast Louisiana. Doctor Jessica Landry says currently one-point-three-million residents share one sexual assault nurse examiner and the New Orleans area sees a little more than two times the national average when it comes to sexual assault cases…
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The endangered dusky gopher frog got its day in the front of the U-S Supreme court today as eight justices heard oral arguments from lawyers representing a St. Tammany Parish landowner, who is unable to develop part of his land because it’s been designated as critical habitat for the amphibian. Mark Miller is representing Edward Poitevant and says unfortunately the four-to -four ideological split certainly increases the chance his client is ruled against…
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Collette Adkins is an attorney representing the Center for Biological Diversity and says if that ideological split were to occur, then it would be a win for the amphibian…
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But Miller says another possible outcome would be the ordering of re-arguments in the case once a ninth justice is selected.