The latest independent poll on Louisiana’s gubernatorial runoff shows Democrat John Bel Edwards with a 20 point lead over Republican David Vitter. The Nextstar TV stations/JMC Analytics survey shows Edwards with 52-percent and Vitter 32-percent of the vote. Pollster John Couvillon isn’t surprised…:
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The survey polled 600 likely voters across the state.

An 86-year-old woman from Slidell is getting help from cops after reporting she believes she lost her wedding ring in a candy bag Halloween night. Slidell Police Department’s Sgt. Daniel Seuzeneau..:
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He’s encouraging parents who went to trick or treat in the Breckenridge subdivision to please check candy bags.

LSU says The Voice of the Tigers, Jim Hawthorne, will not be able to call the game this weekend against Alabama as he recovers from a medical procedure. They say it’s the first game Hawthorne will miss since he got the play-by-play job in 1984. Filling his shoes Saturday in Tuscaloosa will be longtime LSU women’s basketball announcer Patrick Wright…:
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Hawthorne is 71 and already announced earlier this year he’d be retiring after the end of the men’s basketball season in the spring.

The National Institutes of Health awarded a $6.7 million grant to Tulane University to support a study on the lasting health, demographic and socioeconomic impacts of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and the broader region. They say the goal is to create a detailed portrait of where the city and different groups of Katrina survivors stand more than a decade after the disaster.