At the second meeting of the Restore Louisiana Task Force, Congressman Garret Graves urges members to move quickly as more federal aid is coming. Don Molino has more…
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The Louisiana Department of Health has been able to confirm 30 cases of the West Nile Virus that’s four more cases than what the state agency reported towards the end of September. Seventeen cases are the more serious form of the disease that can impact your brain and nervous system. Last year, there were 56 cases of West Nile.

Officials announce plans to dispose volatile explosives at Camp Minden in Webster Parish that led to a bunker exploding in September. Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Chuck Brown says there are three bunkers that contain Clean Burning Ignitor, which is becoming more unstable. He says on Monday they will open the doors of one of the bunkers and let the fire out.
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Brown says if it goes well Monday, they’ll burn the other two bunkers later this month.

A 14-year-old and 12-year-old have been arrested for damaging grave sites at a cemetery in Independence. The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s office says the juveniles also dumped seven urns contiaining human ashes. Vincent Spitale, president of the Colonial Cemetery Association, says family members of those whose graves were damaged came to see the destruction…
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The juvenile offenders are facing multiple charges.