11:30 Newscast October 30, 2014

A tragic story out of St. Martin Parish as two children were killed and a third child was seriously injured while walking to school this morning in Breaux Bridge. The deadly crash took place on a residential street at around 8:00 this morning. State Police trooper Jared Sandifer says it was a pick-up truck that hit the children and they are not sure what happened…

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The child who survived the wreck, was airlifted to a hospital in Baton Rouge.

Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu was on the receiving end of criticism from her two Republican challengers in last night’s US Senate debate. Jeremy Alford of La-politics-dot-com says Bill Cassidy may have benefited from Rob Maness attacks against Landrieu….

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The three debated issues like Medicaid expansion, immigration, and Social Security.

A new study, by the advocacy group Oceana, shows shrimp continuing to be mislabeled across the United States. Louisiana Shrimp Association President Clint Guidry says it is frustrating that so much shrimp and other seafood is mislabeled. He says the government needs to take action on this issue…

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He says loopholes in the law allow seafood processors to easily pass off foreign shrimp as domestic shrimp.

With mid-term elections 5 days away, a survey of small business owners shows they lack confidence that Washington D.C. will be able to fix the countries economic problems. State Director of the National Federation of Independent Business Dawn Starns says 6 out of 10 small business owners believe there is too much uncertainty in the economy for their business to grow…

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She says there’s a clear sense among small business owners that Washington isn’t listening to their needs.