The election cycle finally ends tomorrow in Louisiana, and voter turnout is expected to be substantially lower than in November. Secretary of State Tom Schedler says early voter turnout was much lower for the runoff than it was in the general election.
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Schedler expects an overall voter turnout around 30-percent for Saturday’s election.

A new poll conducted by the University of New Orleans Survey Research Center finds Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Kennedy continues to have a huge lead over Democrat Foster Campbell in tomorrow’s runoff election. UNO Pollster Ed Chervenak says 62-percent of the 776 respondents favored Kennedy while 33-percent supported Campbell.
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Life expectancy in the U.S. has decreased for the first time in over 20 years, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Doctor Ben Springgate with LSU Health New Orleans Internal Medicine and Public Health says although life expectancy has increased in years past due to medical advances, health outcomes are still declining because of lifestyle choices.
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The report found the death rate from heart disease rose by about one percent last year.

Governor John Bel Edwards discussed his priorities for 2017 during a speech at the Council for a Better Louisiana annual luncheon. Edwards says his big goal is to ensure the state uses money from the Transportation Trust Fund in the right places, like improving the daily congestion in Baton Rouge near the I-10 Mississippi River Bridge…:
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