After a fatal shooting on Bourbon Street, Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser is worried people won’t want to travel to the Big Easy. Halen Doughty has more…:
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Today Governor John Bel Edwards will announce flood recovery grant awards organized by the AARP Foundation to benefit 16 local non-profit organizations.

The former secretary of economic development in Louisiana, Stephen Moret, has resigned from his latest job running the LSU Foundation and will be the new president and CEO of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership.

The two men who want to be the state’s US Senator spoke at two separate events yesterday. Democrat Foster Campbell was at the Baton Rouge Press Club…:
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Republican John Kennedy was with Senatorial Committee Chairman Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi in Metairie to visit with volunteers to helping out with early voting efforts. Vice President-elect Mike Pence will travel to the state Saturday to campaign with Kennedy.

Governor John Bel Edwards is hoping the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro will lead to more trade with the island nation…:
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President Barack Obama has worked to try and end the 55-year-old U.S. trade embargo with Cuba, but President-elect Donald Trump has given no indications he’ll continue these efforts.