Republican Congressman Steve Scalise of Metairie says he supports US Senator David Vitter in his campaign to become governor. The House Majority Whip thinks Vitter would do a great job…
CUT 3 (08) “our state back”
Scalise made his comments on The Jim Engster Show.

Tragedy stikes construction workers on Highway 165 near Columbia, after their stopped construction truck with a large arrow board was re-ended. State Trooper Michael Reichardt says 42 year-old Jan Williams of Columbia was traveling northbound and attempted to go around, then hit the truck and three workers…
CUT 07 (08) Q: “died last night”
The victim is 30 year-old Michael Roberts of Monroe, and that crash remains under investigation.

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A native of Cuba, who lives in New Orleans, blasts President Obama for restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba. George Fowler, Vice Chairman of the Cuban-American National Foundation, says one of the reasons for a prisoner exchange is a bad idea…
CUT 10 (11) Q: “be in jail”
He says there is not much benefit for the US to do business with a bankrupt Communist country.

A Grambling State University student traveling at a high rate of speed is dead, and another student injured following a crash near campus. Witnesses said the driver over-corrected, flipped multiple times and burst into flames. Twenty-one year-old Carl Robinson was pronounced dead at the scene and his passenger 23 year-old Arceneau Robinson was airlifted to the hospital in serious condition.