State Transportation Secretary Shawn Wilson says there is a growing support for increasing the state’s gasoline tax. He says in meetings with the task force created to come up with ways to improve Louisiana’s roads, the public realizes a bigger financial investment is needed…:
Cut 3 (09) “and improving infrastructure”
It’s been almost 29 years since the state has adjusted the gas tax.

A Raycom Media Poll on the US Senate race has Republican State Treasurer John Kennedy and Democratic Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell leading the large field of candidates. In the survey of 625 registered voters, 24 percent say they will vote for Kennedy, while 19 percent say Campbell is their choice. ULM Political Science Professor John Sutherlin…:
Cut 9 (06) “likely scenario”
The election is November 8th.

James Tullier, the father of Nick Tullier, the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s deputy that was critically wounded on the July 17th ambush of police officers by a gunman, tells CNN that they believe Nick is listening to them as he lies comatosed in a Baton Rouge hospital. Nick Tullier was shot three times, once in the head. The family remains hopeful that Deputy Tullier can recover and await his transfer to a rehababilition facility in Houston.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is trying to determine how a dead whale washed a shore in Cameron Parish. It’s a very rare occurrance. Marine biologist Mandy Tomlin says they took several samples from the whale’s body in the hopes they can figure out why this animal died and they hope to learn more about the sperm whale itself…
cut 8 (09) “…as well”
Tomlin says it was young calf and somehow got separated from her mother.