The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration has released its 2016 Atlantic Hurricane season forecast. NOAA Administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan says there is a 70-percent chance of 10 to 16 named storms during this season….
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Sullivan admits this year’s forecast is challenging because of various of factors related to sea surface temperatures and how strong La Nina and its impacts will be.

A 23-year-old man from Allen Parish was killed when attacked by a large swarm of bees while hiking in a park in Arizona. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Deputy Joaquin Enriquez says a law enforcement officer tried to rescue Alex Bestler of Elton from the aggressive bees…
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But Enriquez says despite those efforts Bestler was pronounced dead after he was stung over one-thousand times.

An arrest has been made in the murder of East Feliciana School Board Parish member, Broderick Brooks, who was found dead in his vehicle in north Baton Rouge last week. Cpl. L’Jean Mckneely says 19-year-old Jaquez Griffin has been charged with first degree murder….
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McKneely says a motive is still under investigation.

Former Sulphur police officer Brian Theirbach has been sentenced to one-year supervised probation for shooting a dog while responding to a call in April 2014. The dog owner’s said his dog was not aggressive and the shooting was unwarranted. Thierbach pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge.