Members of our Congressional Delegation say the Army is expected to announce today that Fort Polk will have 358 troops cut as part of the 40,000 troop reduction nationwide. The Vernon Parish military base currently has 81-hundred troops stationed and it’s located in the district of U-S Representative John Fleming. He says Fort Polk and the surrounding area has worked hard to stave off any troop reductions:
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Plus he says troops shouldn’t be cut at a time when our country is so threatened by ISIS.

The Manning Passing Academy — now in its 11th year at Nicholls — once again takes over the Thibodaux campus with 1,200 campers and 120 coaches beginning today and ending on Sunday. The success and admiration of Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning in both college football and the NFL has lead the camp in becoming a national event.

The Lafayette Parish District Attorney will seek through an appeal to have 21-year-old Seth Fontenot spend more than 13 months in prison for the shooting death of 15-year-old Austin Rivault. D-A Keith Stutes..:
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Fontenot shot at a moving truck in 2012. One of the bullets killed Austin Rivault and two other teens were also wounded. He got manslaughter and two counts of aggravated battery with a max 40 year sentence, got 3 but had all but 13 months suspended.

The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s office has arrested a couple from Denham Springs in the murder of a man from Zachary who was found dead in his home inside a plastic drum on Saturday. They say 21-year-old Jace Crehan and 17-year-old Brittany Monk were booked on counts of second-degree murder. 47-year-old Robert Noce was stabbed several times and strangled to death two weeks after he began serving probation for a sex crime involving a young child. Authorities won’t say if the killing was connected to Noce’s conviction in the sex crime.