The Louisiana unemployment rate of 4.3 percent for September is at an 11-year-low according to a report from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Louisiana Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Dejoie says Baton Rouge and the Big Easy have made historic strides…

Cut 12 (11) “…people to work.”

A poll from We Ask America finds the gubernatorial run-off between Democratic Incumbent John Bel Edwards and Republican challenger Eddie Rispone is a dead heat, with each candidate receiving 47-percent of the vote. Pollster Andrew Weissert says the governor’s support might be capped out…

cut 4 (09) “…primary”

The run-off is November 16th.

A Shreveport man accused of shooting two people, including a police officer, on the Grambling State campus overnight is in custody. State Police Trooper Michael Reichardt says this was just an isolated incident…

Cut 8 (06) “…any danger”

Reichardt says the officer’s injury is non-life threatening, while the other shooting victim is in serious condition at a Shreveport hospital. 19-year-old Princeton Adams has been charged with two counts of attempted second-degree murder.

The unveiling of a monument to Lynyrd Skynyrd takes place Sunday in Gillsburg, MS, the site of the band’s 1977 plane crash. Skynyrd was on top of the music world when the plane that was carrying the band from South Carolina to a performance at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge crashed in a swampy wooded area just about 50 miles short of the intended destination.

McDaniel says the crash area is not too far from his family’s farm and has a first-hand account of the crash.

Cut 10 (09) “…deceased that night.”