JMC Analytics has released a new poll that shows Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell leading with 23-percent. Pollster John Couvillion says support for Democratic opponent Caroline Fayard is waning, down to just 9-percent. He says Campbell is getting his message out to minority voters.

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John Fleming’s campaign commissioned the poll.

Like the rest of the country, Louisiana has a graduation rate that’s higher than it’s ever been. The White House released a report showing the state’s graduation rate for the 2014-2015 school year is up almost three percentage points from the prior year. State Superintendent John White…

Cut 12 (09) “future for life”

Louisiana’s rate of almost 78-percent is still well below the national average of over 83-percent.

Public Service Commission Chairman and former Congressman of Forrest Hill Clyde Holloway has died at the age of 72. Woody Jenkins was a close friend of Holloway, and he says Holloway was driven and never hesitated to do what was needed to be done.

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No cause of death was given.

A new quarterly food cost survey by the American Farm Bureau shows the cost of groceries has gone down 13-percent over the last year. Louisiana Farm Bureau specialist Neil Melancon says they’ll release another survey before Thanksgiving, and he expects that trend to continue.

Cut 5 (09) “out there”

Whole milk prices are down 10-percent, and the cost of eggs dropped a shocking 51-percent.