Residents in Ouachita Parish continue to clean up after Monday’s EF-2 tornado ripped through the area. Scott Carwile reports…

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The Shreveport Police Department has closed the playground area of a local park after an apparent suicide. The body of a woman was found at Betty Virginia Park. A portion of the park has been closed while the authorities investigate the incident. The name of the woman has not been released.

The LSU Police Department is seeking the public’s help in their investigation of an alleged rape that occurred on campus. Capt. Corey Lalond says the victim reported she was walking along West Lakeshore Drive on October 7th when she was approached by a group of male subjects…

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They are asking anyone who may have seen something unusual in the area on that day to please contact LSU Police or Crime Stoppers.

A local chocolate maker doesn’t think the Ebola outbreak in West Africa will have an effect on the price we pay for chocolate. Michael Nelson, with the Elmer Candy Corporation in Ponchatoula, says he doesn’t see evidence, at this point, that the Ebola outbreak is moving the price of cocoa…

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He says the concern among some market analysts is that the Ebola crisis could spread into Ghana, where almost two-thirds of the world’s cocoa beans are sourced.