A record number of Louisiana high school students are set to move on to college. Matt Doyle discussed the results with the State Assistant Superintendent…
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The Louisiana House is set to vote this afternoon on a bill that would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is around six weeks of pregnancy. Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio and Georgia are among the states that have passed similar anti-abortion legislation and the measures are facing court challenges.

There’s about a week and a half left in the legislative session and a bill to bring sports betting to Louisiana has yet to pass. It died in the legislature last year and Metairie Senator Danny Martiny is trying to make sure it doesn’t happen again….
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Martiny’s sports betting measure gets a hearing today in front of the House Appropriations Committee.

Researchers at LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center is participating in a study that’s looking at why Southerners in some rural parishes live longer, healthier lives than other parishes, even though the two parishes share similar poverty levels and racial composition.
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That’s Doctor Stephanie Broyles who says Assumption Parish is more resilient to heart disease and other illnesses compared to Franklin Parish. The study is expected to take several years to complete.