08:30 Newscast February 16, 2015

State health officials say the flu bug is starting to slow down. Scott Carwile has the story…

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Baton Rouge Police have identified the body found near the LSU campus Saturday. Although the person’s name has not been released, they say the remains were that of a male in his 50s. Authorities do not suspect foul play in the man’s death and believe the man died of either natural causes or by suicide.

Facebook’s new Legacy Contact feature allows users to designate a friend or family member to oversee their account upon their death. However, Jensen Moore, with LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication says there are limitations on what your Legacy Contact can do to your page after you die…

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If you don’t want your Facebook page to continue on, you can opt for it to be deleted upon your death. You can set your Legacy Contact in the Security Settings page on your Facebook account.

The Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office is looking into who is creating elaborate websites for schools claiming to be in the parish, but actually don’t exist. Lt. Bill Davis says they are working with the Louisiana Department of Education to see if the people behind the sites are trying to defraud the federal government or the state via grant dollars…

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According to its website, Hudson Heights Laboratory Magnet High School is located on Sawgrass Parkway in Bossier City, but there is no such school.