The latest Triumph Campaigns poll doesn’t show a lot of change in the governor’s race. Eric Gill reports…
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AT&T has plans to bring widespread internet access to remote areas in Louisiana. Emelie Gunn has more…
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The latest Triumph Campaigns poll on the governor’s race shows that voter’s preference has not changed much. The survey shows Democrat John Bel Edwards, with 31.4-percent, and Republican David Vitter, with 30.6-percent, in a statistical tie for the lead. Pollster Justin Brasell says the two front runners are beginning to solidify key voting blocks…
The two other Republicans are running a distant third and fourth with Scott Angelle polling at 14-percent and Jay Dardenne at 13-percent. Brasell says Vitter and Edwards are receiving a lot of support from their respective parties…
The survey shows only 11-percent of voters remain undecided. Brasell says even though the election is a little more than six weeks away, there’s still time for Angelle and Dardenne to make an impact…
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AT&T announces plans to provide internet access to almost 75-thousand rural Louisiana businesses and homes over the next six years. Director of External and Regulatory Affairs Rick Demint says they will receive almost 28 million dollars from the federal government, plus AT&T will also supply financial resources expand broadband to rural areas.
Demint says AT&T has decided to participate in the federal government’s program so they can fill in the blanks in terms of areas where services aren’t currently available. He says this is a very important opportunity for those living in areas without access to internet.
Demint says it will take time before they can bring high speed internet services to rural areas that currently do not have it but with this help from the federal government they can get it done.
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Monday night, nearly three million people watched the telecast of NBC’s Running Wild with Bear Grylls that featured New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees. One person who was surprised by the episode was Saints head coach Sean Payton. Payton says the show was a lot different than what was described to him…
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As part of the episode, Brees, with the help of Grylls, jumped on the back of a live crocodile and stabbed it. Payton says he thought Brees was going to some sort of “Sea World” type atmosphere and not the Panama wilderness…
Payton says he’s sure precautions were in place in case something went wrong with Brees on the set. If you’re wondering if Payton would let his star quarterback do something like this again…
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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says one of their agents rescued 8 people from the Gulf of Mexico in Vermilion Parish. Adam Einck says, on September 6th near the point where Rollover Bayou meets the Gulf, a huge storm came up out of nowhere producing a lot of wind, rain and high seas…:
Einck says Sgt. Nicholas Guillory got a call about a vessel which began taking on water near Pecan Island. He says the agent then made his way out there as quickly as possible in conditions that were extremely hard to navigate because of the storm…:
Einck says on Guillory’s way back to the original distress call, he came across a total of three boats that were in trouble and was able to get all occupants to safety and also tow the vessels. He says for one man to do all of this in one day is really incredible…:
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