A final removal vote in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump is set for tomorrow, and Senator Bill Cassidy says he will vote against removing the Commander in Chief. Polls show a near dead even split on public opinion related to impeachment and removal and Cassidy says you can’t undo an election without a strong consensus.
Democrats allege the President used military aide pressure Ukraine into investigating his political rival, Joe Biden.
A new, potentially lethal drug has been discovered in a St. Mary Parish traffic stop. It’s called “gray death” and it is heroin cut with fentanyl. St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s spokesperson David Spencer says it doesn’t look like heroin that officials are used to seeing on the street.
Cut 7 (09) “…pieces of concrete.”
Some reports indicate the potency is up to 10,000 times that of morphine.
There’s an active debate in the medical community about whether to start colorectal cancer screenings at 45 or 50, and a study by Tulane indicates starting at 45 may be the better choice. Tulane Associate Clinical Professor Dr. Jordan Karlitz studied cancer rate increases on a year to year basis, and found a 46 percent increase in diagnoses from ages 49 to 50…
The study also found 93 percent of cases discovered at age 50 were invasive, indicating they’d been growing for quite some time.
Bob Griffin, a pioneer of television in Shreveport who worked at KSLA before jumping to KTBS over the course of his 60 year career, has died. He was 85.