A new book on the unsolved murders of prostitutes in Jefferson Davis Parish says Republican Congressman and US Senate candidate Charles Boustany was involved with those women. Boustany’s campaign denies these claims. Political Analyst Bernie Pinsonat expects voters will give Boustany the benefit of the doubt, but only time will tell if attack ads will come…
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State Police has arrested a 73-year-old Slidell man on 500 counts of Possession of Child Pornography. Trooper Dustin Dwight says after a search warrant of Lanier Lively’s home, authorities found massive amounts of suspected child pornography…:
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Dwight says the investigation into Lively began in April.

The LSU Ag Center has increased it’s crop damage estimate to 277-million dollars as a result of the historic flooding event last month. Ag Center Economist Kurt Guidry says rice and soybeans were the two hardest hit crops, followed by corn at 44-million and cotton at 27-million dollars…
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Agriculture losses from both the March and August floods are a combined 367-million dollars.

American Cancer Society volunteers from Louisiana and many other states were in Washington, D.C, today rallying for more funding for cancer research. Director of the LSU Health Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, Augusto Ochoa, says Louisiana has one of the highest rates of death by cancer in the country….:
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