Turnout for the midterm elections in Louisiana was 48 percent, a touch above early estimations that national turnout was 47 percent. LSU Public Policy Research Lab Director Mike Henderson says it’s a part of a trend towards higher federal election turnout in the bayou, but…
Only 40 percent of eligible voters participated in the 2015 governor’s race run-off between David Vitter and now Governor Edwards.
DCFS saw an 18 percent increase in adoptions over last year, continuing a three year streak of record breaking adoption numbers. Secretary Marketa Garner Walters says the 912 adoptees were taken in by 631 families, indicating families are willing to take in more than one kid.
Which is good considering single adoptions can separate siblings.
A Gonzales woman was killed last night in an eleven vehicle pile up on Interstate 10 in Ascension Parish. State Trooper Bryan Lee says she died in chain recation crash. Lee says 56-year-old John White’s 18-wheeler encounter traffic on Interstate 10 near Gonzales that was stopped because of a previous accident…
White, who hails from Mississippi, has been booked into the Ascension Parish Jail for Negligent Homicide and 18 counts of Negligent Injuring.
And the details for Dez Bryant’s new contract with the Black and Gold are out. the veteran all-pro receiver will get 600K to finish out the year in New Orleans. He joins a depleted receiving core that’s lost Ted Ginn, Tommy Lee Lewis, and now Cameron Meredith for the year.