Who Dats turned off the Super Bowl in record numbers. The New Orleans market had a rating of 26.1. LSU Assistant Professor of Digital Advertising Jun Heo, says it’s a huge drop off from last year’s rating of 53.
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Nationally, the Super Bowl hit a 10-year low.

Republican Senator Bill Cassidy has filed legislation that would allow the federal government ot use illegal drug money seized at the border to build a physical barrier along the Southern border. Congressional leaders have been debating for weeks on how to fund a border wall, Cassidy says this legislation could break the logjam…
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Another federal government shutdown is looming in a couple of weeks, if funding is not secured for a Southern border wall.

The first batch of medical marijuana grown in Louisiana has been approved by the state department of agriculture, but the grower working with LSU, G-B Sciences, wants to have a steady stream of the product, before it’s available at pharmacies around the state. There’s hope the product can be available in the summer, but LSU Vice President for Agriculture, Doctor Bill Richardson, says he can’t commit to a date just yet…
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The legislature approved legislation in 2015 that opened the doors for medical marijuana to be legally distributed.

A Shreveport mother received a 30-day jail sentence because she allowed her two children to miss for a year a and a half. Caddo parish prosector Wilbert Pryor says the kids are in the custody of a family member and attending schools, trying to catch up with their classmates…
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Pryer says 35-year-old Fathimah Slack was arrested in November.