A new poll on the 6th Congressional District runoff shows Republican Garret Graves with a significant lead over Democratic former governor Edwin Edwards. The JMC Analytics survey shows Graves with 59 percent of the vote and Edwards with 34 percent. Pollster John Couvillon says Republicans have really gotten behind Graves as the GOP nominee…:
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With early voting for the December 6th election coming this weekend, the Edwards campaign says they plan to air his first television add in 22 years next week.

State Police report an extremely tragic accident out of Ouachita Parish last night which claimed the lives of 5 people, including young children, headed to Disney World for family vacation. They say the 16-year-old licensed driver from Texas likely fell asleep when the Tahoe crashed on I-20 and 6 out of the eight occupants, all unrestrained, were ejected. The children who died were 4, 7 and 15.

A new study from the US Geological Survey finds there’s less than a one-percent chance of the Louisiana black bear population becoming extinct in the next 100 years. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist, Maria Davidson, says this report could result in the Louisiana Black Bear’s removal from the Endangered Species List:
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The study found that more than half of the Black Bears now alive, are in the northeastern part of the state in the Tensas River Basin.

A lawyer for the Obama administration asked a judge today to dismiss Governor Bobby Jindal’s anti-Common Core lawsuit. A ruling on the matter is expected in December.