A 17-year-old mother is on life support after she was shot in what authorities call a road rage incident. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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What health impacts are coming out of the chemical plant explosion in Tangipahoa Parish? Andrew Greenstein talked with an environmental expert for some insight.
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A 17-year-old, who was seven months pregnant, is on life support after she was shot in what authorities call a road rage incident. Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Gerald Sticker says the victim was in a vehicle with three other passengers in the Ponchatoula area and that vehicle was tailgating and brake-checking with another vehicle driven by 54-year-old Barry West. Sticker says West got upset and shot at the other vehicle, striking the 17-year-old in the head…
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Sticker says the victim was rushed to the hospital, where she gave birth to her child…
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But the mother is on life support, while West is in the Tangipahoa Parish Jail on four counts of attempted second degree murder and those charges could be upgraded if the victim passes away. She’s currently on life support. Sticker says the investigation is ongoing
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Sticker calls it a senseless tragedy.
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A sad end to a search for a 12-year-old New Orleans boy. New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick says searchers found Bryan Vasquez dead in a lagoon near his home.
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Vasquez was a nonverbal autistic boy who disappeared from his home August 14th when he climbed out of a bedroom window. Kirkpatrick says the investigation is now a death investigation, and it is in the early stages. She says foul play has not been ruled out.
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There was a five-hour delay from the time Vasquez was reported missing to the time New Orleans Police first responded. Kirkpatrick says that’s also being thoroughly investigated.
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A game changer in healthcare in the Shreveport-Bossier City area, as Willis Knighton Health has joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network. Dr. Lane Rosen, the medical director of radiation-oncology at Willis Knighton, says The Mayo Clinic has very strict standards in choosing the medical facilities it chooses to partner with.
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Dr. Rosen says the partnership with The Mayo Clinic will allow Willis Knighton to take its services to the next level.
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Rosen says the partnership gives Willis Knighton’s patients the nationwide resources of The Mayo Clinic at no additional charge.
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As cleanup efforts continue in Tangipahoa Parish from the chemical plant explosion in Roseland, there are concerns over the environmental impact of the incident. Dr. Rustin Reed, an environmental expert at Tulane University, says whenever there’s an explosion at a plant that manufactures oil and lubricants like Smitty’s Supply, there will be emissions of certain kinds.
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Dr. Reed says as such, even though the current estimated concentration level of pollutants is low, those in vulnerable groups should take extra precautions for the time being.
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Reed says when driving, the filter inside of your vehicle will only go so far in protecting you from harmful emissions from an explosion like the one from Friday afternoon.
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