August 2022

Ernestine D. Lafleur

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OBITUARIES

Updated Food Labeling

Certain types of GMOs have a disclosure that lets you know if the food is a bioengineered food. Bioengineered food is the term that Congress used to describe certain types of GMOs when they passed the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard.

Turkey tail mushrooms act as nonspecific immune modulators

Dear Doctors: I’m a 73- year- old Vietnam War veteran who was exposed to Agent Orange. Last December, I was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer. I had immunotherapy and also used turkey tail mushroom extract. All except one of the tumors shrank. Do you think the mushrooms helped?

SPORTS BRIEFS

Diamondbacks promote OF prospect Carroll to big leagues

NFC South rivals add QBs as Bucs’ Brady keeps rolling at 45

ATLANTA (AP) — In only two seasons in the NFC South, Tom Brady has cast a shadow that stretches from Charlotte to Atlanta to New Orleans.

LSU’s Kelly aims to keep QB starter for season opener secret

BATON ROUGE (AP) — New LSU coach Brian Kelly is hoping his team can keep a pretty big secret for a week leading up to the revamped Tigers’ season opener.

Jaguars trade WR Shenault to Panthers for 2023 draft pick

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Receiver Laviska Shenault, a second-round draft pick in 2020, is getting a fresh start in Carolina.

Report: Nearly 100 rape calls downgraded to non-emergency

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly 100 calls to report rapes this year have been quickly downgraded from emergency status, leaving survivors to wait hours for police — and, increasingly, to leave before officers arrive, a New Orleans newspaper and TV station report.

Three men try to save little boy swept away by river; all drown

MERRYVILLE (AP) — Search crews found the body of a little boy Monday miles from the Louisiana sandbar where he was swept away by the Sabine River while playing in shallow water and three men drowned trying to save him, the sheriff said.

NASA scrubs launch of new moon rocket after engine problem

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA called off the launch of its mighty new moon rocket on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard Monday after a last-minute cascade of problems culminating in unexplained trouble related to an engine.