With $3.5 million in the bank, Republican Senator David Vitter is leading all other candidates in cash on hand for this year’s governor’s race. Fellow Republican candidates Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne and Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle have about one-and-a-half million each. Pinsonat says both Dardenne and Angelle are off to a good start…

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Democratic State Representative John Bel Edwards reported $745,000.

In a recent CBS News Poll, 67-percent of Republican respondents said they did not know enough about Governor Bobby Jindal to consider him for the Republican presidential nomination. Political analyst Clancy Dubos says this is bad news for Jindal especially after the publicity he received after his stance on “No-Go Zones”…

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The poll found that 18-percent of respondents would consider Jindal.

The Mandeville Police Department says a man is charged with his 8th DWI after he allegedly drove a car that didn’t belong to him drunk into another vehicle then fled the scene. Lt. Gerald Sticker says 48-year-old James Hittson took his friend’s 2006 Chevrolet Avalanche from an apartment where they were hanging out without her permission…

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He says Hittson then threatened the owner of the vehicle who then called the cops.

The case of the man who was convicted of literally scaring a Lafayette woman to death after he broke into her home, then had the ruling overturned, will be reviewed by the Louisiana Supreme Court. A jury found 40-year-old Willie Robertson guilty in 2013 of causing 86-year-old Irene Schoofs heart attack which killed her. Legal analyst Tim Meche…

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The death of the woman happened in 1999 but the case wasn’t prosecuted until 13 years later.