Louisiana health officials aim to have a contract in place by July to offer Medicaid patients and inmates unrestricted access to drugs to treat Hepatitis C, which is a disease that damages the liver…
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That’s Governor John Bel Edwards who says Louisiana has started the process in finding a pharmacuetical partner so they can treat 10-thousand individuals by the end of 2020.

A man who had been serving a life sentence for rape since 1981 is now a free man. Eric Prudholm walked out of Angola yesterday after a state judge vacated his convictions and sentence for aggravated rape and armed robbery. The Innocence Project says new DNA evidence in the case out of Bossier Parish conclusively proved that Prudholm did not rape the victim. Prudholm is now 58-years-old. He was 21 when he was thrown in jail.

Louisiana Office of Community Development Director Pat Forbes hopes the state can begin construction later this year on a new community for the residents of Isle De Jean Charles, which are in jeopardy of losing their homes on an island because of coastal erosion. Forbes says inhabitants of the island have been offered interim housing.
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The state has paid 11.7 million dollars in federal money on a 515-acre property of land in Terrebonne Parish about 40 miles north of the island to resettle the residents of Isle De Jean Charles in a new community.

A study shows the University of Louisiana System contributes nearly 11-billion dollars to the state’s economy. Economic Modeling Specialists International conducted the study. UL System President Jim Henderson…
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