Prostitution allegations have surfaced against a candidate for US Senate, Republican Congressman Charles Boustany. Emelie Gunn has more…
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The LSU AgCenter finds the total damage to agriculture from the August floods to be about 277-million dollars. Don Molino has more…
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American Cancer Society volunteers from Louisiana and many other states are in Washington, D.C, today rallying for more funding for cancer research. Director of the LSU Health Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, Augusto Ochoa, is among those volunteers. He says the advances in science over the past several decades have been phenomenal, and we are at a turning point in cancer research that just needs an additional push.
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Ochoa and the other volunteers are asking Congress to increase funding for the National Cancer Institute by $680 million. He says, more than 9-thousad Louisiana residents die from cancer every year, and Louisiana has one of the highest rates of death by cancer in the country.
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According to the National Institute of Health, in 2015, almost $24 billion funded nearly 50-thousand cancer research grants over 25-hundred research facilities around the country. Ochoa says Louisiana receives some of those grants.
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For more information on how to volunteer with the American Cancer Society, go to A-C-S-CAN-dot-org (acscan.org).
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The wife of Republican US Senate candidate Charles Boustany says prostitution allegations against her husband are “false attacks.” The accusations were raised in a new book that claims Boustany was involved with prostitutes who were killed in Jefferson Davis Parish. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says this has the potential to hurt Boustany’s campaign…
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A statement from Boustany’s campaign says these allegations are completely false. The author of the book stands by what he wrote. Pinsonat says we saw something similar last year in the governor’s race with PACS attacking David Vitter’s prostitution scandal.
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Pinsonat expects voters will give Boustany the benefit of the doubt as long as nothing more comes from this allegation. But he says only time will tell if attacks ads will come…
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Louisiana State Police has arrested a Slidell man on 500 counts of Possession of Child Pornography. Trooper Dustin Dwight says 73-year-old Lanier Lively was sharing pornographic files involving juveniles over the internet. He says after executing a search warrant of his house, authorities found massive amounts of suspected child pornography…
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Dwight says the investigation into Lively began in April. He says Lively had nearly 32-thousand gigabytes of data….
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Dwight says State Police is constantly looking for criminals like Lively. He says this is a very appalling case.
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An Ascension parish man will spend the next five years behind bars after he beat his dog to death with a baseball bat. Jeff Dorson with the Humane Society of Louisiana says Jamari Jackson faced up to 10 years for the 2014 crime, but they are happy with the sentence he got.
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Jackson reportedly claimed that he hit his dog because it was stuck in a barbed wire fence and he wanted to “relax” it to get it loose. Dorson says this is a good result for a horrible tragedy.
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An updated analysis from the LSU AgCenter finds agriculture losses from the August flooding totaled nearly 277-million dollars. The original estimate was 110-million dollars in damage. AgCenter Economist Kurt Guidry says rice and soybeans were the two hardest hit crops.
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Guidry says row crop producers affected by the flooding are eligible for emergency loans. He says corn was the next hardest hit commodity taking a 44-million dollar hit and cotton is at 27-million dollars…
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Agriculture losses from both the March and August floods are a combined 367-million dollars. Guidry says livestock also suffered greatly during last month’s floods and the Farm Service agency has programs to help livestock producers.
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