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Belton's new show "Cookin' Louisiana" airs on 93% of the PBS stations in the country.

The fields are set for the Oct. 9 election in which voters will decide on who fills two seats held by longtime Rapides Parish politicians. One is the Rapides Parish Police Jury District I seat, which became vacant when Scott Perry died in January. His wife, Doris Perry, was appointed to fill the vacancy, but she did not qualify to run for the seat. Democrats Jay Scott and June Johnson Davis will face off for the seat. Scott was Perry's opponent in the last race. The second race is for the District 4 seat on the Alexandria City Council, which had been held by Harry Silver until his resignatio...

From Staff Reports William "Bill" E. Gates joins the crowded 2022 governor's race as an independent. Gates currently lives in Little Rock, where he has been a senior pastor for the church of Christian Jewish Freedom since 2010. Gates was born in Wichita, Kansas and raised in the Arkansas River Valley.  In his press release, Gates is positioning himself as a candidate for those who are unhappy with both the Democratic and Republican parties. If elected to the governorship, Gates would focus on education, industrial growth, and environmental consciousness.  Gates believes the state needs to...

Lafayette General disputes claim that nurse died of COVID-19 Lafayette Daily Advertiser After the death of a recently-minted nurse in Lafayette this weekend, Ochsner Lafayette General disputed social media claims that complications from COVID-19 took her life. Amy Olivia Guidry, who graduated from LSU Alexandria with a nursing degree in fall 2019, died Saturday after being hospitalized, according to friends on social media. "Though our time together was cut awfully short, I feel like I've known you for a lifetime," Guidry's coworker Kelsey Mire wrote on Facebook. "I feel your presence with me...

Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards has entered hospice care, but the 94-year-old insists the move is a matter of convenience rather than impending death. "While people assume that hospice means I’m dying, I assure everyone it’s simply a matter of good and convenient care that is less trouble for everybody," Edwards said in a statement through family spokesman and biographer Leo Honeycutt. "I’ve made no bones that I have considered myself on borrowed time for 20 years and we each know that all this fun has to end at some point," he said. "But it won’t be anytime soon for me.  In fact...