Today is the day for those in southwest Louisiana waiting to hedge their bets on the big games, Brooke Thorington has more.
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If you’re Black, are obese, and suffer from Type 2 Diabetes, there’s a study being launched that just may prove beneficial. More from Dave Brannen.
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Are adverse effects from COVID vaccines being under-reported in Louisiana? And if so, why? Kevin Gallagher has more…:
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You’ll be able to place your sports wagers in Lake Charles at either the Golden Nugget or L’Auberge casinos beginning today. The two casinos join five others that have already had their licenses approved by the Gaming Control Board Chair Ronnie Johns expects this to be a big boon for Lake Charles casinos, especially from their neighbors to the west.
Other casinos that have already been licensed for sports wagering are Paragon in Marksville, Harrah’s in New Orleans, L’Auberge in Baton Rouge, Horseshoe in Bossier City, and Boomtown in Harvey.
Voters approved legalized sports wagering in 55 of the state’s 64 parishes. Johns says State Police are working diligently with inspections so more licenses can be issued. But when it comes to mobile betting, Johns says it’s more complicated and time-consuming approving that platform but they are working on it.
Johns says while he knows many are anxiously waiting for sports wagering to be fully operational in all of the approved outlets, he’s actually impressed with the timeline they’ve met so far.
Geofencing technology will be incorporated with sports betting via mobile apps and only allowed in approved parishes.
(Sportsbook at L’Auberge Lake Charles will open Wednesday at 9 am and Golden Nugget will open for sports betting at 2 pm.)
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Pennington Biomedical and Ochsner Health are taking part in a study of Black patients with Type 2 Diabetes to determine if telemedicine can be used successfully in the battle against obesity. Dr. Peter Katzmarzyk, the project’s principal investigator, says the study will take place in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
The goal is to learn the effectiveness of offering remote health coaching through primary care clinics.
Dr. Katzmarzyk says the researchers are looking to recruit about 350 Black patients for the study who will be randomly assigned for two years to either a weight-loss group or a group that receives traditional care for their diabetes.
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Dr. Katzmarzyk on why the study is focusing the study on Black patients.
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He says that even modest weight loss of five to ten percent of a person’s body weight can significantly lower the risk of heart disease and have other beneficial health impacts.
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A 34-year-old Crowley man is awaiting extradition from Austin County, Texas where he’s in custody for the beating death of his mother, Pamela Meyers. Acadia Parish Sheriff K P Gibson says that Stephen Wayne Meyers the Second is facing a second-degree murder charge.
The sheriff says upon further investigation and search of the property on Saturday the 59-year-old victim was discovered deceased in a field near Bamboo Road. Investigators have not determined the motive for the killing and say no weapons were used in the attack on the woman.
Sheriff Gibson on what led investigators to thoroughly search the field where Meyers and his mother were last seen together on November 2nd.
Sheriff Gibson says it’s unclear what the motive for the deadly attack was.
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Nurses working the front lines of the COVID pandemic tell state lawmakers they feel negative effects from vaccines are badly underestimated. State health officials testified of only 11 “severe adverse events” statewide, but then left the committee room before Lafayette ICU nurse Heather LeBeouf could testify her disagreement with the number…:
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There is a statewide LDH call-in system to report adverse COVID shot reactions, but LeBeouf says she and many of her colleagues were unaware it even existed. She says a great many cases of problems with the vaccines are going un-reported, because this isn’t generally known among medical professionals…:
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Another Lafayette ICU nurse, Elizabeth Suire (SWEER), also testified that she and colleagues had no knowledge of a number to report COVID vaccine troubles to LDH. She says she asked repeatedly about this…:
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Both nurses told lawmakers the reporting hotline’s obscurity is almost certainly leading to under-reporting of ill effects from the vaccines. Neither State health Officer Joe Kanter nor State Epidemiologist Theresa Sokol were in the committee room to hear the testimony.
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The Ragin Cajuns have already wrapped up a fourth straight Sun Belt Division title, now the goal is to secure home-field advantage for the conference championship game on December fourth. U-L Lafayette Coach Billy Napier says it would be great to host the game at Cajun Field and it serves as extra motivation for the players…
Last year’s Sun Belt Championship game was canceled because of COVID but in 2018 and 2019, U-L lost at Appalachian State in the conference title game. The Cajuns are at Troy this Saturday for a 2:30 kick-off. The Trojans are 5-and-4 and Napier says they are playing two quarterbacks Taylor Powell and Gunnar Watson…
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The LSU Tigers are getting to host Arkansas on Saturday night. The Razorbacks are 6-and-3 and led by quarterback K-J Jefferson who has thrown for 18-hundred yards and 16 touchdowns. He also has five rushing touchdowns. LSU linebacker Damone Clark on defending the Razorbacks offense…
LSU defensive coordinator Daronte Jones on what he sees from the Arkansas offense…
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The SEC’s top two tacklers will be featured in this game. Arkansas’ Bumper Pool has 87 tackles, while LSU’s Damone Clark leads the league with 107. Jones has also been a great team leader…