Shreveport Fire Chief Scott Wolverton held a news conference today to discuss how they located the body of 7-year-old Daysean Combest who was swept away in a storm drain Tuesday afternoon. He says railroad contractors called firefighters around 7:30 this morning…:
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He says that’s where the body was recovered by the Caddo Parish Coroner.

The lawmakers who will sit on the TOPS task force have been announced.:
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A West Monroe man survived in the wilderness of Belize completely naked. Dustin Campbell will appear on tonight’s episode of “Naked and Afraid” on Discovery Channel. He says it was a challenge completing the stretch without clothes, as bugs never bit so hard and nights never so long.:
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Watch the episode tonight at 8 p.m.

This year’s “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is the biggest one yet. LSU scientist Nancy Rabalais says one problem is fresh water inflow that creates a layered system. That coupled with the nutrient-rich water coming down the Mississippi River from the Midwest creates a huge dead zone..:
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She says the oxygen-depleted region is about 8,800 square miles.