A Gonzales woman was killed last night in an eleven vehicle pile up on Interstate 10 in Ascension Parish. State Trooper Bryan Lee says 18-wheeler caused the chain reaction crash. Lee says the 18-wheeler encountered traffic on Interstate 10 near Gonzales that was stopped because of a previous accident…
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The driver of the semi-truck, 56-year-old John White from Mississippi, has been booked into the Ascension Parish Jail

The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services is celebrating a record breaking number of adoptions from foster care, with 912 children finding homes in the Federal Fiscal Year of 2018.  It’s an 18% increase from the previous record set last year.  DCFS Secretary Marketa Garner Walters says the agency is seeking out families that will adopt groups of siblings over just one child at a time.
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Turnout for the midterm elections in Louisiana was 48 percent. Only 40 percent of eligible voters participated in the 2015 governor’s race run-off between David Vitter and now Governor Edwards. LSU Public Policy Research Lab Director Mike Henderson says it’s a notable number, considering Louisiana lacked any high profile statewide elections, but it’s only a bit higher than the last major midterm in 2014.  While Louisiana’s federal election participation is going up…

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Louisiana’s next statewide election is in December for the Secretary of State’s run-off.

Could we ever see a Blue Wave in Louisiana? Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat doubts that will happen, because the national party has moved too far to the left…
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Pinsonat says the number of white Democrats is dwindling in Louisiana.