The Advocacy Center has filed a lawsuit to gain access to inmates at David Wade Correctional Center after prisoners claimed they were forced to bark like dogs for food. Attorney Katie Schwartzman with the McArthur Justice Center says it’s their job to investigate claims of abuse.
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The Department of Corrections has not issued a statement.
An investigation is heating up in St. Tammany Parish, as an autopsy shows a Lacombe woman was actually not killed in a house fire. The coroner says Nanette Krentel was fatally shot before the home was set on fire. The sheriff’s office and the state fire marshal’s office are investigating the incident, as Krentel is the wife of the local fire chief.
US 190 at the Old Mississippi River Bridge in Baton Rouge is closed all weekend as crews work to repair the railroad track there. Rodney Mallet with the state department of transportation says the highway will remain closed until 5 a.m. Monday. So drivers will have to use an alternate route.
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Motorists can get back on the highway using either LA 1 or LA 415.
More than two thousand soldiers from Fort Polk will deploy to Iraq this fall for antiterrorism operations. Base spokesperson Kim Reischling says members of the 3rdBrigade Combat Team have trained for the last year.
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Reischling says 60-percent of the unit will be deployed, and the rest will continue training on the base.