Governor Bobby Jindal did not poll well enough in recent national surveys to be among the ten candidates who will square off tomorrow night on Fox News in the first formal Republican Presidential debate. ULM Political Science Professor Joshua Stockley says Jindal may need to change his campaign strategy…

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National polls have the governor only getting only one to two percent of the vote.

Researchers have determined the size of the “Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico has grown to the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium executive director Nancy Rabalais says in order to reduce the size, more needs to be done by farmers to reduce the amount of nutrients that’s running off their fields into the Mississippi River and then into the Gulf…

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She says the “Dead Zone” is 28-percent larger than last year.

Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office arrests a man in the brutal rape of a convenience store clerk in Sulphur. Emelie Gunn has more…

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This Friday and Saturday is Louisiana’s Annual Sales Tax Holiday. During the holiday, the 4% state sales tax on the first 25 hundred dollars of each item a customer buys will be waived. Local sales taxes will still apply to purchases unless the local taxing authority has created its own exemption. Exceptions do apply. More info can be found at revenue-dot-louisiana-dot-gov-slash-taxholiday.