State Police report two elderly people are dead after a crash in Tensas Parish. Trooper Michael Reichardt says 95-year-old Ralph Cooper of Newellton was driving his truck along LA 4 yesterday afternoon…:
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He says Cooper and his passenger, 90-year-old Jewel Lee also of Newellton, were pronounced dead at the scene.

State Police also say there was a fatal crash in Ascension Parish on Tuesday in which a man from Donaldsonville ignored a flag man in a construction zone and crashed into a parked dump truck. They say 42-year-old Kirt Canova was in a 2010 Nissan Altima and was not restrained at the time of the crash and suffered fatal injuries as a result. Impairment is unknown at this time.

Both of these crashes remain under investigation.

Former Governor Edwin Edwards and Republican Garret Graves went head to head in Livingston Parish yesterday and it got ugly. Perhaps the most controversial moment came at the end of the 6th Congressional District debate when Graves announced he’d been endorsed but the Sheriff’s Association. Edwards left his podium and approached Graves calling him a liar. The Sheriff’s Association reportedly held a vote on whether or not to endorse Graves and all agreed but not every member was present at the meeting.

Rumors of Les Miles leaving LSU for Michigan are back again. Jeff Palermo has more…:
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