After more Louisianians have been hospitalized and even died as a result of synthetic marijuana, Governor Bobby Jindal has announced the ban of multiple new synthetic marijuana compounds. Eric Gill reports…:
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US Senator David Vitter says he’s introduced legislation called the Steve Gleason Act of 2015 in the US Senate. He says the bipartisan proposal, which is endorsed by Team Gleason, would help patients diagnosed with ALS live more independent lives. Gleason was Vitter’s guest earlier this month at the President’s State of the Union in Washington D.C.

State Fire Marshal’s officials are investigating a fire in Avoyelles Parish that has left four dead. Fire Marshall Butch Browning says the fire occurred just before midnight Thursday night at a mobile home in Marksville…:
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The victims’ ages range from 10 to 73-years-old. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

The Super Bowl is Sunday and a study out of Tulane finds that cities who have teams playing in the big game see a spike in flu deaths. Researcher Charles Stoecker says an interesting aspect of the study found the host Super Bowl location does not see an increase in flu…:
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He says based on county-level stats, there was an 18-percent increase in flu deaths among those over the age of 65 and in cities whose teams were in the Super Bowl.