A new national survey from Drivers-ed-dot-com finds 73-percent of drivers admit to reading text messages while behind the wheel, with 54-percent typing on their phones. Safety analyst Laura Adams says the fact so many people are texting and driving is alarming…
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The survey even found that eight-percent of drivers admit watching YouTube videos while behind the wheel.

A poll paid for by Restore the Mississippi River Delta finds that 79-percent of coastal voters support sediment diversion projects as a way to build back Louisiana’s vanishing coast. There is opposition to these large-scale engineering projects, because of what impact it may have on fisheries and economies of coastal communities. Restore the Mississippi River Delta campaign director Steve Cochran….
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At 1:18PM today phones will sound an emergency alert tone for the first wireless emergency alert test of its kind. Matt Doyle has more.
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