Funeral services for fallen Baton Rouge Police Cpl Montrell Jackson will begin in this hour. Jackson is a 10 year vet with BRPD. Police Chief Carl Dabadie says he was Jackson’s instructor when he served as academy director.

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Dabadie says Jackson is a true hero and a loving husband and father.

59 Louisiana delegates will be in attendance at the Democratic Nation Convention, which begins today in Philadelphia. Delegate Michael McHale says this convention will have a much different tone than last week’s Republican convention.

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McHale says Clinton is the most qualified candidate this race has ever seen.

Two dozen candidates have qualified for the US Senate race for the open seat in Louisiana. Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell and attorney Caroline Fayard are the major Democrats in the race. UL-Lafayette political science professor Pearson Cross says if a Democrat can pull most of the party vote, they will have a good chance of making it to the runoff.

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Congressmen Charles Boustany and John Fleming, Col. Rob Maness, and former KKK leader David Duke are major Republican names in the race.

At a special meeting this afternoon, the LHSAA will discuss comments made by executive director Eddie Bonine’s in which he called the organization a “proverbial dumpster fire.” Bonine was signed on as executive director last year, and Executive committee member Tommy Hodges says he doesn’t see the LHSAA buying Bonine’s contract out.

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