Today is election day in Louisiana. Today’s ballot is highlighted by Louisiana’s US Senate race between Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu and Republican challenger Bill Cassidy. There are also runoff elections in the 5th and 6th Congressional Districts. Polls will be open until 8PM tonight.

Speaking of the 6th District, candidates Republican Garret Graves and Democratic former governor Edwin Edwards continued sparring leading up to election day. Edwards has alleged that Graves was somehow involved in getting his father’s engineering firm government contracts and making his brother-in-law the leasing agent at the Water Institute in Baton Rouge while he was head of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. Graves says these accusations are completely absurd…

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The comments were made Thursday on the Jim Engster Show.

The Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested a New Iberia man after a hostage situation Thursday. Lt. Richard Fleming says the situation began the night before when 31-year-old Thomas Chevalier broke into the victim’s apartment prior to her arrival. He says when the victim returned home, Chevalier then battered and sexually assaulted her…

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The victim has since been released. Fleming says Chevalier faces numerous charges including aggravated rape.

State Police are investigating a fatal crash in Livingston Parish that has left two men dead. Trooper Jared Sandifer says 50-year-old Lloyd Hutson of Jackson crossed the center line into the path of a car driven by 76-year-old Raymond Bender of Denham Springs. The two vehicles collided head-on and both drivers were killed as a result. Sandifer says investigating troopers believe impairment may have been a factor in this wreck…

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Sandifer says neither Hutson nor Bender were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash.