A Nextstar TV stations/JMC Analytics survey on Louisiana’s gubernatorial runoff finds Democrat John Bel Edwards with a 20 point lead over Republican David Vitter. Eric Gill reports…
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LSU’s longtime play-by-play announcer will be missing the first game of his career this weekend. Jeff Palermo reports..:
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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 receiving 52-percent of the vote compared to Vitter’s 32-percent. Pollster John Couvillon says these results are not that surprising…
He says 16-percent of those surveyed were undecided and they split pretty evenly between the two candidates. Couvillon says the survey shows Edwards receiving 25-percent of the Republican vote which is not good news for Vitter…
The survey polled 600 likely voters across the state. Couvillon says with less than three weeks to go, Vitter has a lot of work ahead of him…
CUT 5 (07) “”and/or undecided”
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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…:
Hawthorne is 71 and he already announced earlier this year that he’d be retiring from broadcasting after the end of the men’s basketball season, spring 2016. LSU says they hope he’ll be back in a few weeks. Wright says last week the radio team asked him to call the Alabama game and he’s been practicing his college football play-by-play all weekend…:
Hawthorne’s replacement next season will be Chris Blair, but this weekend he’s still working his other job as Georgia Southern’s announcer. Wright says they may briefly lament Hawthorne’s absence during the broadcast, but Jim himself would want to keep the story about the game between No. 4 LSU and No. 7 Alabama…:
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There’s a happy ending after the Slidell Police Department helped an 86-year-old woman locate her wedding ring after she lost it while handing out candy on Halloween. Sgt. Daniel Seuzeneau says the ring was found in the woman’s front yard near where she was giving out candy to trick or treaters.
Seuzeneau says the ring slipped off the woman’s hand after she was wearing it on her pinky because it didn’t fit on her ring finger and fell in the grass. He says everyone is relieved it was found at home.
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Seuzeneau says she’s the happiest woman he’s come across in years. He says her husband passed away years ago and the ring has a lot of sentimental value.
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Tulane has been awarded a $6.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the long term impact of Hurricane Katrina. Mark VanLandingham, Thomas C. Keller professor of global community health and behavioral sciences at Tulane, says they are excited about receiving this funding…
Researchers will investigate the long term health, demographic, and socioeconomic impacts of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the entire region. VanLandingham says the opportunity to look at the consequences of a disaster like Katrina beyond one or two years makes this study unique…
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The five-year grant will establish the Tulane Center for Studies on Displaced Populations. VanLandingham says a goal of the study is to create a picture of where the city and different groups of survivors stand more than a decade removed from Hurricane Katrina…
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