An advocacy group is calling for more standard vehicle safety features after a three-year-old girl is killed in a Carencro restaurant parking lot. Kace Kieschnick reports.
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Authorities in Natchitoches Parish are investigating after human skeletal remains were discovered yesterday near a dry creek bed in a remote wooded area near Ashland. We’re told the remains are headed to the LSU Faces lab for forensic testing as investigators look at possible ties to an Ashland man missing since 2023.
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Democrats outnumbered Republicans in early voting in Louisiana by 16-thousand. But there were also more than 93-thousand no-party voters casting early and absentee ballots and between now and next Tuesday, there will be additional absentee ballots coming in to round out the tally. LSU Shreveport Political Science Professor Jeffrey Sadow says how those ballots are marked is anyone’s guess.
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The Louisiana Book Festival will be open in Baton Rouge tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Robert Wilson, the executive director of the Louisiana Center for the Book, says there will be more than 200 authors and presenters there for dozens of panels, programs and book signings. Wilson says writers have told him they enjoy the personal feeling of the Louisiana Book Festival.