12:30 Newscast, October 18th, 2017

It is now illegal to burn a flag in Ibervile Parish..:
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More than 4,000 jobs could be saved by a $200 million expansion of the WestRock paper mill in Hodge in Jackson Parish in a deal aided by state incentives. Governor John Bel Edwards is slated to make the announcement at this hour. The plant employs about 450 workers with a $28 million annual payroll, but the mill supports about 3,700 indirect jobs.

LSU Public Policy research lab Director Mike Henderson finds that voter turnout for statewide elections has been on a decline for the last 30 years. In 1983, 54-percent of the eligible voters voted for governor and in 2015 the voter turnout was down to 33-percent. Last weekend’s special election saw only a 13 percent turnout. Henderson says the voting public seems to be burned out on state politics…:
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But he added there haven’t been enough statewide special elections in recent years to determine how early voting turnout relates to the overall election turnout.