A new independent poll on Louisiana’s US Senate race shows its tightening. Jeff Palermo has the story..
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A new app has been developed to help identify the more than 350 caskets that were uprooted in the recent flood in south Louisiana. Don Molino has more…
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A new independent poll on the election for US Senate in Louisiana finds a tight race. Republican State Treasruer John Kennedy still leads the Southern Media and Opinion Research survey of 500 likely voters with 17-percent. But Pollster Bernie Pinsonat says GOP Lafayette Congressman Charles Boustany is only two-percentage points back….
The poll was conducted from September 15th to the 17th. Pinsonat says Democrat Caroline Fayard has improving poll numbers as well as she’s up to 11-percent…
The poll shows Democrat Foster Campbell at nine-percent and Republican Congressman John Fleming at eight percent. Pinsonat says this survey shows there’s five candidates who can still make the runoff…
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While the August flood destroyed homes and impacted thousands of people in south Louisiana, the living were not the only ones affected. Department of Health Program Manager in Emergency Preparedness, Henry Yennie, says over 350 graves were disrupted in at least 8 parishes, and they’ve come up with a solution to get the deceased back to their final resting place.
Yennie says so far they have identified roughly 15-percent of the caskets that were disrupted in the recent flood. He says the hardest hit cemeteries are in northern Livingston parish and St. Helena parish. He says they’ve already starting using the new app as they identify the disrupted caskets.
Yennie says it will be a while before the barcode system can be implemented on a larger scale. But he says in the next six months they want to put it to use targeting at risk cemeteries.
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Millions of drivers waste money on premium gasoline, according to a new study from AAA. Spokesperson Don Redman says over 16 million drivers are putting higher octane gas in their cars, and paying more for it, when their vehicle doesn’t require it.
Redman says they encourage people to check their car’s owner’s manual to see what kind of gas their car requires. He says 70-percent of vehicles on the road just need regular gas.
Redman says some high end vehicles do require premium gas because of the way the engine is calibrated. He says the only differences between regular and premium gas are the octane levels and the price.
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Lafayette Police are trying to get some answers in the case of a body that was discovered in a tool box. Corporal Bridgette Dugas says they received a call around 4pm Tuesday in reference to a possible deceased person enclosed in some type of bin…:
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Anyone with information on this incident is urged to contact authorities. Dugas says they are working to identify the victim and also the cause of death. She says details about how the box got there are scarce…:
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A West Monroe police officer who fatally shot a man in 2014 has been found not guilty of negligent homicide. Officer Jody LeDoux shot Raymond Martinez, who according to the evidence was drunk and belligerent outside of a store. Defense Attorney Mickey Dubose says despite the controversy surrounding the case, he was confident LeDoux acted properly….
Dubose says Martinez reached for a silver object inside a newspaper bin that LeDoux believed to be a gun, but it turned out to be a silver flip phone. A total of nine witnesses were called during the trial, including the accused. Dubose says experts also testified about the incident.
If convicted, LeDoux was charged with five years in prison. Dubose says he’s not sure whether or not LeDoux will go back to work at WMPD.
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