The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals announce testing confirms that the brain-eating ameba, Naegleria Fowleri, has been found in a water system in Sabine Parish. The ameba was also discovered in St. John the Baptist Parish last month. Office of Public Health Medical Director, Takiesha Davis, says while the ameba is potentially dangerous, it doesn’t make the water unusable…

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Davis says the department’s new ameba sampling program is in its third stage and they are finding this ameba now because they are looking for it.

PayScale-dot-com ranks Louisiana Tech number one in the state in early- and mid-career salaries for graduates. The report says Tech graduates, early in their career, earn an average of over $49,000 per year. University spokesman Dave Guerin feels this ranking is a real testiment of the faculty at Tech…

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Two Shreveport police officers have been put on routine paid administrative leave after they were involved in a shooting of an armed robbery suspect. Corporal Marcus Hines says the incident happened Saturday night and the person who was shot has been identified as 26-year-old Anthony Thomas of Shreveport who faces numerous criminal charges…

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Hines says Thomas’ gunshot wound is considered non-life threatening.

State Police say a Gonzales man was killed yesterday when a tree limb came crashing down on him while on his Harley Davidson. Trooper Jared Sandifer says 53-year-old Travis Lessard and his 52-year-old brother, Joseph Lessard of Maurepas, were transported to local hospitals after they were hit by the tree limb…

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Sandifer says they are not sure what caused the tree limb to fall.