Marksville state Representative Robert Johnson says legislators must do whatever they can to prevent another incident like last Tuesday’s fatal city marshal shooting from happening again. Eric Gill reports…
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The first face-to-face meeting between Democrat John Bel Edwards and Republican David Vitter resulted in a few verbal jabs between the two gubernatorial candidates. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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The first televised debate since the primary is tonight at 7 between gubernatorial candidates Republican David Vitter and Democrat John Bel Edwards. Emelie Gunn has more….
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The city of Marksville is trying to come to grips as why city marshals opened fire on a vehicle last week, killing a 6-year-old boy. Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse, Jr. are accused of shooting and killing Jeremy Mardis following a police chase. Marksville state Representative Robert Johnson says he’s looking to determine under what authority the city marshal acts…
He says legislators must do whatever they can to prevent a tragedy such as this from happening again. Because Mardis and his father, Chris Few, are white and the suspects are black, there is concern that some will try to make this incident a racial issue. Johnson doesn’t believe that to be the case…
He described actions and conduct of the suspects in the shooting as unconscionable. Johnson says he’ll introduce legislation to tighten controls on the use of weapons by local marshals…
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Democrat John Bel Edwards and Republican David Vitter went toe to toe during an hour long debate at the Baton Rouge Press Club. The two candidates for governor made the case on why they should be elected November 21st. Edwards says if elected, he will govern in a way that is bi-partisan and that reaches out to everyone across the state.
Edwards says as governor, he will be the leader that puts Louisiana first. He says after 8 years of Governor Jindal’s failed leadership and disastrous polities, it’s time for a change.
Vitter says he and Edwards have starkly different voting records and will take the state in opposite directions. He says the Edwards campaign wants to avoid discussing the key issues Louisiana is facing.
Vitter says he has led the effort on real reform by strongly working to increase jobs in the state, as well as, expanding charter schools. He says Edwards has a completely different record.
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The first televised debate between gubernatorial candidates Democrat John Bel Edwards and Republican David Vitter will air tonight on LPB stations around the state. The debate will be from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. U-L Lafayette Political Science Professor Pearson Cross predicts the candidates will be aggressive, especially because of recent attack ads.
Cross says Edwards will likely try to reach out to Republican voters by emphasizing some of his conservative views like being pro-gun and pro-life. And he says Edwards still needs to introduce himself to voters.
Recent polls show Edwards leading Vitter for the November 21st runoff. Cross says with Election Day right around the corner, both Edwards and Vitter will throw major shots at each other.
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The new CFP rankings come out tonight and Jerry Palm with CBSsports.com believes there’s still a chance that LSU will be one of four teams to make it to the College Football Playoff, even after the loss to Alabama. He says having one loss doesn’t automatically mean you don’t make the playoffs and he doesn’t think that all of the teams will be undefeated anyway…:
Palm doesn’t put high odds on LSU playing for the SEC Title, as Alabama is playing as good as anyone right now. He says assuming Nick Saban’s team can finish 12-1 and make the playoffs, if LSU wins the rest of their games the Tigers could end up being the SEC representative in the Sugarbowl…:
LSU still has to play and win against Arkansas, Ole Miss and Texas A&M to stay alive. When the first rankings of the season were released last week, LSU was ranked No. 2 and Alabama No. 4. The Tigers fell to No. 9 this week in the AP Poll, but Palm has LSU at No. 5 in his projections…:
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LSU running back Leonard Fournette is not discouraged and gives credit to Alabama for holding him to 31 yards in Saturday’s loss to Alabama. Fournette says it was obvious from the beginning of the game, the Crimson Tide were going to do all they could to stop him…
Fournette says Alabama played great team defense, but the Alabama players didn’t gloat about what they did…
Fournette says the team needs to move past this one and look forward to Saturday’s contest at home against Arkansas…