A state judge has declared a 1997 constitutional amendment that that bars certain convicted felons from running for an office in Louisiana as unconstitutional. This same amendment kept former Governor Edwin Edwards from qualifying for this year’s governor’s race. An election Edwards says he would have won, but is glad he couldn’t…

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This court case involves former state senator Derrick Shepherd, who spent 37 months in prison and is seeking a state House seat this fall.

Hopefully, we’ll start to feel cooler temperatures in Louisiana now that fall has officially started. State Climatologist Barry Keim says we will start seeing temperatures in the 80s over the next few days but that might not last too long…

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He says higher than average rainfall is expected over the next three months.

The deadline to register to vote for the upcoming gubernatorial election is today. Secretary of State Tom Schedler says if you use the Geaux Vote dot com website, you have more time to complete the process…

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Schedler says we have more than 600 statewide elections coming up and hopes more people will get involved, as we only have a few weeks left.

The Cameron Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating the case of a 1 year old child who was discovered wandering Holly Beach alone, while her parents were jogging naked 4 miles away. Sheriff Ron Johnson says when authorities responded, they noticed a Ford Explorer which had been left running a short distance from where the child was found…

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The parents, 32-year-old Cody Bourgeois and 35-year-old Monique Bourgeois, are charged with child desertion and obscenity.