Today is the final day to register to vote or change your party affiliation for Louisiana’s March 5th presidential preference primary. Eric Gill reports…
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The Tabasco plant on Avery Island cut the ribbon this week on a brand new Visitors Center. Michelle Southern speaks with McIlhenny (Mackle-Henny) CEO Tony Simmons…: (starts with cut)
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A mother and her two sons have been arrested in connection with the death of a 14-year-old Port Barre student. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Today is the final day to register to vote or change your party affiliation for Louisiana’s March 5th presidential preference primary. The presidential election season kicked off Monday in Iowa. Secretary of State Tom Schedler says it’s important to make sure your party affiliation is correct for this election…
He says, in the closed presidential primary, Democrats will vote for Democrats and Republicans will vote for Republicans. Schedler says Independent voters will not be able to take part in the presidential primary, but in some areas of the state there will be other items on the ballot…
You can register to vote or change your party affiliation at your local registrar of voters office until 4:30 today or do it online at geauxvote-dot-com until midnight tonight. Schedler says casting your vote is the best way to express your opinion on how government should be run…
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The Tabasco plant on Avery Island cut the ribbon this week on a brand new Visitors Center which also includes a restaurant with meals prepared with the world famous pepper sauce. Tabasco is produced by the McIlhenny (Mackle-Henny) Company of Louisiana, and President and CEO Tony Simmons says the new Tabasco Visitors Center tour features an interactive greenhouse…:
The new “Tabasco Family of Flavors Restaurant 1868″ is open daily for lunch. Simmons says they spent about five and a half million dollars to upgrade the facilities. He says the tour also shows their barrel mash warehouse…:
Simmons says his family has been on the island since 1818, then began creating Tabasco in 1865, so the new museum contains artifacts and history from their time there. He says they get in excess of about 100,000 people a year visiting Avery Island, and those of us who haven’t been since we were kids are in for a real treat with the new facilities…:
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Governor John Bel Edwards announces they will continue to have “an elevated presence” of state troopers patroling New Orleans historic French Quarter. State Police Superintendent, Colonel Mike Edmonson, says a sales tax approved by French Quarter residents last October provides the funding to keep more troopers in the Big Easy…
Edmonson says they are also bringing in an additional 170 troopers for the big Mardi Gras festivities this weekend, but that won’t hurt their presence in other areas of the state…
Edmonson says additional troopers in the tourist areas of the French Quarter have helped to lower criminal activity…
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The Natchitoches Parish Sheriff’s Office says they have found the murder weapon in the investigation into the stabbing death of Dylan Kyle Poche. The 18-year-old was killed Saturday at the Sibley Lake boat launch. Captain Tony Moran says they’ve arrested 18-year-old Andrew Jacob Wallace and after several days of searching detectives found a critical piece of evidence.
NPSO says 18-year-old William Holman has been arrested for accessory after the fact to 2nd degree murder and disturbing the peace and 18-year-old Kristine Woodall is charged with aggravated assault with an hammer and engaging in a fistic encounter. Moran says Wallace was arrested shortly after the stabbing because he fled the scene in a vehicle and was followed by relatives of Poche….
Moran says Wallace is being held without bond. During a press conference, Sheriff Victor Jones said they believe a feud began last week and continued on social media until the two met at the boat landing. Moran says the investigation is ongoing…
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It’s national signing day and the LSU Tigers are poised to have the number one recruiting class in the nation. One of the nation’s top defensive tackles is expected to sign with the Tigers and that’s Neville star Rashard Lawrence, who helped the Monroe school win back-to-back state championships. Neville head coach Mickey McCarty says he’s everything you want in a defensive lineman
LSU is expected to sign five defensive linemen and three offensive linemen, including John Curtis standout Willie Allen. Patriots head coach Jt Curtis says the four-star prospect has the intangibles to be an outstanding offensive lineman in the SEC
The Tigers are also expected to sign a quarterback. Zachary QB Lindsey Scott committed to LSU over the weekend after originally giving a verbal pledge to Syracuse. He’s the Louisiana Gatorade Player of the Year in 2015 and Zachary head coach David Brewerton says Scott’s five-foot-11 height hasn’t stopped him from making all the throws