LSU turns its attention to Ole Miss after ending an eight-game losing streak to Alabama. Jeff Palermo has the story…
Cut 1 (29) “…I’m Jeff Palermo.”
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Louisiana broke a record for early voting turnout in a non-Presidential election. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Dozens of veterans attended a Veteran’s Day ceremony today at the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge. Raymond Broussard, a retired marine, says military personnel appreciate the thanks they receive on this day
There is an estimated 284-thousand veterans living in Louisiana. Broussard says former military service personnel are treated much better than now than post-Vietnam…
The Veteran’s Day Ceremony at the Old State Capitol was one of over 40 events taking place today to honor our living soldiers. There was a beautiful rendition of God Bless America…
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Unseasonable cold temperatures are on the way from a front that hits the state this afternoon. National Weather Service Meteorologist Patrick Omundson says the front will bring a little rain and very strong winds. He says a wind advisory is in effect for the northern half of the state from tonight until tomorrow morning…
Omundson says temperatures will dip below freezing along the I-20 corridor and upper 20s near the Arkansas border…
The coldest night is tomorrow night as temps will fall into the mid-20s in south Lousiana on Wednesday morning. Omundson says it’s warm today, but rest of the week will be cold
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The Louisiana Office of State Parks wants to hear your thoughts about the state’s outdoor offerings by filling out a form on public-input-dot-com-slash-Play-OutDoors-LA.
Director of Outdoor Recreation Mitchell Aleshire says the survey will help guide future development and investment in the Sportsman’s Paradise, and they want to know…
Aleshire says there’s a lot of value in the data they are capturing because it covers every kind of outdoor recreation.
Aleshire says filling out the survey will help Louisiana score additional federal grant money that can be used to upgrade outdoor facilities.
The 23 question survey will be available through December 31st.
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489,649 Louisianans early voted for the run-off, a record shattering number of early voters for a non-Presidential election.
Unlike in the primary, the early voting electorate looks a lot friendlier to Governor Edwards. 31 percent of all early voters were African American, and…
That’s JMC Analytics pollster John Couvillon who says three of those times were during 2008 when Barack Obama was first elected President.
Couvillon says to put the 31 percent overall black turnout and the 40 percent last day of early voting black turnout in perspective…
Couvillon expects total early voting to hit 500,000 when absentee ballots are counted, and you should see about one to 1.1 million votes when you extrapolate that out to total run-off participation…