13:30 Newscast January 26, 2015

It’s estimated over three-thousand people attended Saturday’s prayer rally on the LSU campus that featured Governor Bobby Jindal. The American Family Association, which has been classified as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, due to it’s views on same sex relationships, paid for the event. During a Sunday appearance on A-B-C’s “This Week,” Jindal was asked what he would do if the US Supreme Court overturned Louisiana’s law that bans gay marriages…

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Hundreds came out Saturday to protest the AFA.

Republican Minden Congressman John Fleming says he along with eight other US House of Representatives members have formed the House Freedom Caucus. Fleming says they’ll advance an agenda that calls for an accountable and limited government…

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He says membership is only for those Representatives that promote the liberty, safety and prosperity of all Americans.

A University of Michigan Medical School study finds, that since the late 90s, there has been an almost 30-percent increase in the report of falls among the elderly. Dr. Cathi Fontenot, with LSU Health Internal Medicine, as one ages, your sense of balance typically gets a little worse. Fontenot says it’s important to keep those core muscles as strong as possible to help maintain your balance…

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She says the weakening of core muscles in the elderly can affect their sense of balance.

A Shreveport casino patron is hospitalized after accidentally shooting himself in the thigh. Shreveport Police Cpl. Breck Scott says 34-year-old Jerry Grimes was removing his firearm from his person and placing it in the trunk of his car when it discharged. He says the investigation is ongoing, but Grimes had no signs of impairment…

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No charges have been filed at this time.