A new poll on the US Senate race shows it looks to be a close one. Republican State Treasurer John Kennedy is still in the lead in the Southern Media and Opinion Research survey at 17 percent. Pollster Bernie Pinsonat says Democrat Caroline Fayard has improving poll numbers as she’s up to 11-percent…:
CUT 4 (06) “in New Orleans”
The other candidates who polled near double-digits are Democrat Foster Campbell, at nine-percent and Republican Congressman John Fleming at eight percent.

After deliberating for one hour, a six-person jury in Ouachita Parish determined West Monroe Police Officer Jody Ledoux was “Not Guilty” of negligent homicide in the shooting death of Raymond Martinez in December of 2014. Ledoux testified he thought the homeless man was reaching for a gun, when he was pulling a silver and gray cell phone from his pocket. The West Monroe Police Department is holding a news conference at this hour concerning the trial. More on this as it develops.

The devastating flooding in south Louisiana caused over 350 graves to be disrupted, according to the Department of Health. Program Manager Henry Yennie says disasters in the state commonly unbury tombs so they’ve developed an app that would scan a bar code on a coffin providing identifying information about who is inside. He says they’ve already started using it…:
CUT 7 (11) “identify people”
Yennie says so far they have only identified roughly 15-percent of the caskets that were disrupted in the recent flood.

For the third time, Governor John Bel Edwards is going to Washington to try to drum up support for Louisiana getting billions of dollars in federal aid to assist in the flood recover.