Authorities are still looking for a worker who may have gone missing after an explosion on a platform in Lake Pontchartrain last night. Four of the seven injured people have left the hospital while three are critically injured. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto is not releasing much information on the 8th worker that remains missing…:
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They said the fire is almost out, and it doesn’t appear there is any pollution in the water.

City Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell and former Municipal Court Judge Desiree Charbonnet are headed to a New Orleans mayoral runoff; and the city will see it’s first female mayor ever. Political analyst Clancy Dubos says that makes this race far more interesting…:
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Voter turnout for the Mayoral primary was 32 percent.

The three constitutional amendments on Saturday’s ballot passed and are now law. President of the Public Affairs Research Council Robert Travis Scott says the first amendment which establishes a property tax exemption for construction work in progress will make things more certain for tax assessors…:
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Amendment number two will give the spouses of volunteer firefighters, EMS, and paramedics who die on duty, a full property tax exemption. With the passage of amendment three, the state has created a new fund within the transportation fund.