A report from the personal finance website, Wallethub, finds Louisiana the second worst state to have a baby. Jeff Palmero has more…
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Levees.org is planning on turning a house flooded during Hurricane Katrina into a memorial. Emelie Gunn has more…
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The state’s ag commissioner has a warning for horse owners. Halen Doughty has more…
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A study from the personal finance website, WalletHub, finds Louisiana is the 2nd worst state to have a baby. Louisiana ranks last when it comes to rate of low birthweight, number of OB-GYNs, and preterm births. State Department of Health Deputy Secretary Michelle Alletto says this is disappointing news but they aren’t surprised. She says the expansion of Medicaid will hopefully help improve birth outcomes.
The study ranks Louisiana 49th in number of Pediatricians and Family Doctors and 47th for infant- mortality rate. Alletto says they’re working in cities and rural areas to help improve access…
Alletto says the March of Dimes puts out a report card annually and finds one of the barriers to improving the birth outcome is access and coverage…
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Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne announces that TOPS students will have to pay a small portion of their scholarship for the fall semester. When the second special session ended, lawmakers approved legislation so that TOPS students would be fully covered in the fall semester, but Dardenne says the actual breakdown will be.
Dardenne says 93-percent of a TOPS scholarship will be covered for the fall semester, while students will have to pay for over half of their tuition for the spring semester.
Dardenne says it’s the governor’s hope that when lawmakers return to Baton Rouge next spring, they’ll be able to allocate more money, so TOPS students in future years are not hit with a bill for tuition.
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Levees.org is planning on turning a New Orleans home that was flooded during Hurricane Katrina, into a memorial. Website founder Sandy Rosenthal says when people get off the airplane at the Louis Armstrong Airport, they want to better understand what went on 11 years ago. She says the plan is to make the home look like it did right after the hurricane hit.
Rosenthal says a water line would be painted on the outside because the original line has faded with time. She says it’ll cost about $50-thousand dollars to revamp and preserve the house from further decay but she expects a lot of donors to help with the recreation.
Rosenthal hopes to open the memorial by December 1st, the close of hurricane season. She says the house was bought in April and construction has been ongoing ever since.
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Investigators with the Lake Charles Police Department are working to close some cold cases, starting with the 29-year-old murder of Noah Breaux, whose home was burned down to cover up the homicide. Deputy Chief Mark Kraus says in March of 1987, the 75-year-old Breaux’s home was burned down and once inside authorities found his body.
KPLC-TV reports a murder weapon was never found, but Kraus has multiple skull fractures. Kraus says police have exhumed Breaux’s body in the hopes of finding more evidence. He says because of advances in technology, police can now collect evidence they never thought they’d be able to.
At the time of Breaux’s death, authorities suspected robbery was a motive and the elderly man may have known his attacker. Kraus says anyone with any information on this case is encouraged to contact Lake Charles Police.
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