It’s the home-stretch for election day tomorrow, and there’s a lot of noise being made in the 6th District race, as Democrat former Governor Edwin Edwards is accusing Republican Garret Graves of getting his father’s engineering firm Government contracts, and making his brother-in-law the leasing agent at the huge Water Institute in Baton Rouge…
CUT 6 (10) Q: “white black birds”
Yesterday on the Jim Engster Show, Graves called the accusations absurd.

A burglary, battery, and hostage situation in New Iberia has a Jackson, Louisiana man arrested on several charges…
CUT 9 (06) Q: ‘aggrevated rape”
That’s Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office Lt. Richard Fleming, who says thirty-one year-old Thomas Chevalier allegedly broke in to the female victim’s apartment, and when she arrived, he reportedly abused her and held her hostage.

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A Grand Isle businessman was sentenced to 25 weekends in prison after pleading guilty to a couple of counts of federal civil rights violations…
CUT 2 (30) “reporting”

Governor Bobby Jindal announcing some more economic news today, as Oxlean Manufacturing announces plan to expand it’s steel fabrication site in Walker. The company will invest over 2 million dollars, and create an additional 73 new jobs and another 122 indirect jobs.