Hit songwriter and guitarist Tony Joe White from West Carroll Parish has died suddenly at the age of 75 from a heart attack. White was born on a cotton farm near Oak Grove and is best known for writing the 1969 hit “Polk Salad Annie” and “Rainy Night in Georgia.” Oak Grove native Harriet Monroe Miller says White would often come back to his hometown…
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White also wrote a couple of hit songs for Tina Turner and worked with Elvis Presley and Tom Jones.

Many LSU fans might be spending the open weekend figuring out how they can get tickets to next week’s LSU-Alabama match-up. Adam Budelli, with StubHub, says sales on their website have been brisk….
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Budelli says the lowest ticket price on their website is 234-dollars in the east upper deck. He says this is the third most sought-after regular season ticket behind Texas-Oklahoma and LSU-Georgia.

There are four more days left in the Early Voting period and political analyst John Couvillon says overall turnout could be over 30-percent, which is a good number compared to other previous mid-term elections that didn’t feature a U-S Senate race. Couvillon says the media blitz regarding Amendment number two, which is the unanimous juries question is helping to increase turnout…
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Early voting ends on Tuesday.