The two front-runners in Louisiana’s US Senate race are in a statistical dead heat leading up to next Tuesday’s election, according to a Suffolk University poll. 36-percent said they would vote for Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu in the primary, while 35-percent chose Republican Congressman Bill Cassidy. However, when the poll shifts to a Landrieu-Cassidy runoff, it shows Cassidy with a 7-point lead over the incumbent. Michael Henderson, Director of LSU’s Public Policy Lab, says that lead is a little bigger than what we’ve seen in other surveys…

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The poll surveyed 500 voters across the state October 23-26.

A head-on collision in Assumption Parish has taken the life of a 10-year-old girl and sent three others to the hospital. Trooper Evan Harrell says says Naveah Pierson of Gray was not restrained at the time of the accident and was pronounced dead at the scene. Harrell says the three others involved in the crash were not seriously injured…

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Harrell says impairment is not a suspected factor in this crash and the Louisiana State Police investigation is ongoing.

A Prairieville man is under arrest for allegedly ramming a vehicle over and over while his wife and another male victim were inside. Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Major Ward Webb says 33-year-old Gerald Asay saw his estranged wife in a car another man was driving and got upset. He says the suspect rammed into the back of that car while they were at a red light and that caused them to hit another car…

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Asay faces multiple charges including two counts of attempted first-degree murder murder.

The brother of the Gretna man who died during the LSU game Saturday night says that’s how Brian Tingley would have wanted to go. Athletic officials released a statement saying it appears the fan suffered a heart attack in the 4th quarter of the Tigers 10-7 win over Ole Miss. Ross Tingley says his brother was a 35 year season ticket holder…

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East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Dr. Beau Clark says the 59-year-old was pronounced dead at 11:25 Saturday night.