A Baton Rouge lawmaker will file a bill for the upcoming legislative session that seeks to let citizens vote on the legalization of marijuana in Louisiana for recreational use. Recreational marijuana for adult use is legal in Oregon, Washington D.C., Colorado, Alaska and Washington. Representative Dalton Honoresays people should be able to vote on the recreational pot law…

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He is also bring back his medical marijuana bill which failed last year.

With the beginning of Daylight Saving Time over the weekend, everyone lost an hour of sleep. But State Police says that’s no excuse to drive fatigued. Sgt. Nick Manale says they often see accidents that were caused by sleepy drivers, so it’s imperative to be sharp behind the wheel…

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Manale says sleepy driving can be as dangerous as impaired or distracted driving.

A Louisiana physician is working on a way to perfect a permanent solution to sleep apnea. Dr. G. E. Ghali, an oral surgeon and instructor with LSU Health Shreveport, says apnea patients are often given CPAP masks to ensure oxygen flow but the problem there is compliance…

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He says they’ve come up with a treatment for that which uses the daVinci Robot inside a person’s mouth.

Lafayette has been named as one of the top 20 hardest working cities in the US by the personal finance site badcredit-dot-org. Editor Steven Richmond says about 350 cities were ranked on four separate categories for this report…

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Richmond says they looked at percentage of population over age 16 in the workforce, average commute times, percentage of households with children, and average number of hours worked each week to compile their list.