A new beverage--touted as an anti-hangover drink--will soon be on
store shelves in Louisiana. Scott Slocum is president of Fusion
Beverages, the makers of Resurrection--a beand new herbal hangover
remedy. Slocum says G & G Distributing in Bossier City, a leading
beer distributor in the state, will be placing the product in retail
outlets. Slocum says Resurrection is an herbal-based, non-caffeinated drink
that blocks the flu-like symptoms--the headache, nausea and
discomfort--that often come from indulging in alcohol.
 

(New Orleans, LA)  --  Another rise in prices at the gas pump.  Triple-A reports the average in Louisiana for self-serve regular went up nearly a penny overnight, to two-61-point-6 per gallon.  That's a dime above the average of a week ago.  At this time last year, motorists in Louisiana were paying an average of about one-point-79 for regular.

(Lafayette, LA)  --  A second person involved in a crash on Interstate 10 in Acadia Parish has died.  Seventeen-year-old Aaron Richard [[REE-shard]], of Branch, died Wednesday at a Lafayette hospital.  Eighteen-year-old Benjamin Guidry, of Church Point, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which took place Tuesday afternoon near Rayne.  State troopers say a car, driven by 17-year-old Brennan Sonnier, of Church Point, went out of control after it clipped the rear of a vehicle driven by 32-year-old Megal Collum, of San Antonio, Texas.  Guidry and Richard were passengers in Sonnier's vehicle, which hit a tree after traveling off the roadway.  Collum was not injured.  Sonnier suffered moderate injuries.  State police say the crash remains under investigation. 

A Texas woman was busted Thursday afternoon when Louisiana State Police stopped her for a traffic violation on I-20 in the Calhoun area.

Fifty-two-year-old Lee Roy Williams Junior was booked into the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center this morning.

Former State Senator Ken Hollis of Metairie lost his battle with cancer Friday morning. 

Here's a look at what's going on in national health news.

There is still no meeting planned between a Florida pastor who has threatened to burn Korans tomorrow and a controversial New York imam.

Protests over plans by a Florida church to burn copies of the Koran on 9-11 have turned deadly near a German-run NATO base in Afghanistan.