A Baton Rouge lawmaker will file a bill for the upcoming legislative session that seeks to let citizens vote on on the legalization of marijuana in Louisiana for recreational use…

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State Police say a hit-and-run accident in St. James Parish claimed the life of a Vacherie woman. Authorities say 24-year-old Corey Newton ran a red light and struck a vehicle driven by 25-year-old Brittany Harris, causing her vehicle to leave the road and hit a utility pole. Harris was pronounced dead at the scene. Newton fled the scene on foot, but was captured a short time later and charged with vehicular homicide, DWI, and other charges.
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 they’ve come up with a treatment which uses the daVinci Robot inside a person’s mouth. He says they’ve had a 90% success rate in the surgery permanently opening up airways of sleep apnea patients…

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Ghali says recovery from the surgery can take several weeks, but many patients report that after a month or two they are feeling better, sleeping better and sleeping in bed with their spouse again.

According to the personal finance site badcredit-dot-org, Lafayette has been named as one of the top 20 hardest working cities in the US. Editor Steven Richmond says this list represents some of the busiest, hardest working, and most workaholic populations in the US…

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Richmond says about 350 cities were ranked on four separate categories for this report.