07:30 Newscast March 9, 2015

Baton Rouge Representative Dalton Honore will file a bill for the upcoming legislative session that seeks to let citizens vote on whether or not marijuana should be legal in Louisiana for recreational use. Honore says he hopes other lawmakers will get on board with letting people decide whether or not marijuana for recreational use should be legal…

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Honore is also bringing back his medical marijuana bill which failed last year. The legislative session begins April 13th.

A Louisiana physician is working on a permanent solution to sleep apnea. Dr. G. E. Ghali, an oral surgeon and instructor with LSU Health Shreveport, says they’ve come up with a treatment for that which uses the daVinci Robot inside a person’s mouth…

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Ghali says if you are interested in learning more about the procedure, call 318-675-6101.

Lafayette has been recognized as one of the top 20 hardest working cities in the US by the personal finance site badcredit-dot-org. Editor Steven Richmond says Lafayette scored high in the number of people in the workforce…

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Richmond says they used data from the US Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics to compile their report.

We all lost an hour of sleep, with the beginning of Daylight Saving Time, but State Police says that’s no excuse to drive fatigued. Sgt. Nick Manale says if you do feel yourself becoming fatigued while driving, there are some things you can do to help yourself…

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He says they often see accidents that were caused by sleepy drivers, so it’s imperative to be sharp behind the wheel.