Today is the last day for early voting in the presidential election here in Louisiana.
John Couvillon (COO-vee-ahn) with JMC Analytics says while the early voting in polling places is up from four years ago, the mail-in ballots are considerably down from that time. He says he does not expect the state to reach the one-million early vote mark at the end of the day today.
The City of Tallulah, in Madison Parish, will be imposing a curfew starting Friday. The police chief is taking the action due to what he says are issues within the city. City spokeswoman Yvonne Lewis says the curfew will be in place indefinitely.
Days before the curfew was announced, the principal of Madison High School ordered students to leave backpacks at home this week.
Governor Landry is in South Korea for his first economic development mission trip as governor.
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A 14-year-old boy is killed in a shooting in Terrebonne Parish. The shooting happened last Friday in a neighborhood in Chauvin, and the boy’s body was found in a wooded area. The sheriff says the shooting stemmed from a series of vehicle burglaries involving two other juvenile boys. The name of the teen killed has not yet been released.