An automated telephone survey conducted by Triumph Campaigns finds Republican US Senator David Vitter and Democratic State Representative John Bel Edwards neck and neck in the governor’s race. Vitter had 31-percent; while Edwards got 30-percent…
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That’s Jeremy Alford with LA-Politics-dot-com.

Policy changes for the Department of Children and Family Services after a 15-year-old Baton Rouge special needs boy was found in a home weighing just 47 pounds with insect bites, and lying in his own waste. DCFS Secretary Suzy Sonnier says kids in bad conditions will now be assessed by a group of medical professionals…
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The Louisiana Film and Entertainment Association drops plans to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new law that capped the film tax credit program. Here’s Michelle Southern with more…
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A teenager from Benton, who bragged on social media about stealing 16 street signs from specific Bossier Parish neighborhoods, can now add one more address to the places he’s visited-the Bossier Maximum Security Faciliy. Seventeen year-old Chase Grubbs has been charged with 16 counts of theft.