Following a statewide listening tour, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is out with a report on the state’s waste tire crisis. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Willis Knighton Health in Shreveport opens its nuclear oncology department today. Colleen Crain reports it will improve cancer treatment for patients.
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Despite Governor Jeff Landry’s support, Constitutional Amendment Two and the other three amendments on Saturday failed to pass. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Following a statewide listening tour, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is out with its report on how to deal with the state’s waste tire crisis. Secretary Aurelia Giacometto says one thing they learned in the six town halls is that many collection sites charge a per-tire fee over a certain limit, and that’s counterproductive.
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Giacometto says waste tires are also having an impact on farms, especially at harvest time.
Giacometto says in more urban areas, waste tires are having an adverse effect on the state’s waterways.
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And when it rains, the water collected in those tires can allow mosquitoes to breed in them, potentially leading to mosquito-transmitted diseases like West Nile Virus. She says one possible solution is offering grants to communities to help them pick up waste tires.
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Willis Knighton Health in Shreveport opens its new seven-million-dollar nuclear oncology department today. Officials say it will radically change cancer treatments for patients in the region. Medical director of Radiation Oncology at Willis Knighton Health System, Doctor Lane Rosen, says nuclear oncology, also known as theranostics, uses radiopharmaceuticals to treat tumors……
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The expansion includes two significant pieces of equipment. The Siemens Biograph Vision PET Scan, which is the only one in the state. The other new tool is called Star Guide which is a GE SPECT CT scan. Rosen says the Willis Knighton Cancer center now has the most advanced molecular imaging tools in the country for delivery and monitoring of radiopharmaceutical treatment.
Rosen says theranostics is one of the most advanced methods to precisely diagnose and treat cancer
Rosen says theranostics will be one of the standards of treatment for cancer within ten years.
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Louisiana voters rejected all four Constitutional amendments on Saturday’s ballot. It’s a political defeat for Governor Jeff Landry, who pushed for Amendment 2, telling voters it would make the state more attractive for business investment. But John Couvillon of JMC Analytics and Polling says the governor didn’t start campaigning for the amendment until the week of early voting…
Constitutional Amendment Two was born in last November’s tax reform special session. It sought to make major changes to Article Seven that included lowering the maximum income tax rate, limiting annual budget increases, and making it harder to approve new tax breaks. But Couvillon says the governor and Republican lawmakers took too big of a swipe at changing the state’s tax code…
Amendment Two faced opposition from conservatives over concerns it would weaken constitutional protections for property tax exemptions that religious groups and nonprofits rely on. Couvillon also says Democrats were energized to vote against it as they do not like the fast-moving agendas from both Republican President Donald Trump and Landry….
In a statement, Landry blames far-left liberals for the amendment failing to pass. The governor says he will continue to fight to make generational changes for Louisiana to succeed.
All four constitutional amendments failed to pass with about 65 percent of voters voting no.
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For the second year in a row the LSU Lady Tigers season ended in the Elite Eight. LSU shot 37-percent from the field as they missed several shots they normally make in a 72-65. Coach Kim Mulkey says the game was lost in the second quarter, when UCLA’s best player, Lauren Betts, was out of the game in foul trouble and the Bruins still outscored LSU 22-12…
UCLA hit ten 3-pointers on the game. Timea Gardnier came off the bench and with her quick release she made five threes. Gabriela Jacquez had four 3-pointers and had 18 points. Lauren Betts finished with 17 points.
LSU was led by Flau’jae Johnson who had 28 points, 24 of them came in the 2nd half. Aneesah Morrow had 15 points and seven rebounds. The Chicago native finished her college career with 1,714 rebounds, the third most in Division one history. Morrow thanked Mulkey for making her one of the best college basketball players in the country, but it was not easy…
LSU finishes its season with a 31-6 record. Morrow is out of eligibility and Johnson has the option to turn pro. Mulkey is bringing in the nation’s number one high school recruiting class next season, but they’ll need new veteran players…
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The eighth-ranked LSU baseball team completed a three-game sweep of the Mississippi State Bulldogs early Sunday morning as the Tigers pounded out 19 hits in a 17-8 win. LSU scored eight runs in the first inning. After Derek Curiel led off the inning with a single, Jared Jones hit a two-run homer. Coach Jay Johnson says Jones put a nice swing on the ball…
It was the second SEC series sweep of the season for the Tigers who are now 7-2 in the league. The Bulldogs are 1-8. Johnson says his LSU team won three games over a good team…
Chase Shores started the series finale, but only pitched four innings. He left after one hopper hit his glove than his face, which led to a swollen eye and a cut on his face. Johnson says Shores is fine…