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(StatePoint) About 7,000 children in the United States visit emergency rooms for battery-related injuries each year, according to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. Lithium coin batteries, those small, disc-shaped batteries about the size of a nickel, are particularly dangerous. The exact right size to get lodged in a child’s throat if accidentally swallowed, they can turn deadly, burning a hole in an esophagus in as little as two hours. And, they’re everywhere – in key fobs, key finders, flameless candles, remote controls, thermometers and many common home devices.

(StatePoint) May is Save Your Tooth Month, an annual celebration of toothsaving procedures and the endodontists responsible for saving teeth. It’s also an important reminder that while having a tooth pulled may seem like the easiest option when you have tooth pain from an infection or disease, saving your natural teeth is best.

Catholic Charities of Southwest Louisiana is scheduled to hold its monthly food distribution in both Elton and Jennings in June.

Area veterans who were left unclaimed after they passed away will be given full military burial services thanks to the efforts of the local veteran’s cemetery.

DOGS DAYS of Summer

The last Louisiana inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was in 2012.

BATON ROUGE — Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Charlton Meginley, COL (USAF Retired) and the LDVA team will honor Louisiana’s fallen and remember their legacies in observance of Memorial Day at events across the state. LDVA’s five state-run veterans cemeteries will host somber ceremonies memorializing the nearly 10,000 veterans interred at the cemeteries.