Early voting continues at a brisk pace this year. Joel Watson with the Secretary of State’s Office says hundreds of thousands of voters have already cast their ballots.
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Remember, during early voting, you can vote at any polling place within your parish. On Election Day, you will need to go to your assigned precinct.
A preliminary test of a second inmate is positive for tuberculosis. The inmate is incarcerated at Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson and the Department of Corrections says additional testing is being done to verify that the strain of bacteria for which the inmate tested positive is the one that causes TB. The department says this case is not related to the drug-resistant TB diagnosed at the ICE facility. DCI is not on lockdown, but the department has suspended routine inmate transfers into and out of the prison for the time being.
It’s shaping up to be a banner year at the Port of New Orleans. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The outlook for Louisiana suggests that drier conditions will continue into next week at least. LSU Public Heath Climatologist Barry Keim says currently, 59-percent of Louisiana is considered to be in a drought, and about 25-percent of the state is in severe drought or worse.