Five Amite residents are now facing federal charges for allegedly beating and forcing an autistic woman to eat dog feces. The victim was held captive for a year in mobile home after her mother died. According to court documents, when authorities found the woman, she was malnourished, covered in insect bites and living oustide in a six-by-eight foot chicken cage. The five people facing federal charges range in age from 20 to 45-years-old.

The state’s brown pelican population went from zero in the 1960s to now 100-thousand as a result of the state’s repopulation program, which started when seven-hundred young birds were brought from Florida to Queen Bess Island, northeast of Grand Isle. LDWF nongame bird biologist Michael Seymour says efforts are underway to restore that island, which has been eroding away and the BP spill didn’t help either…
cut 14 (08) “…several thousand birds”

A Grambling State Communications graduate student is getting a boost from Queen B, in the form of a 25,000 dollar scholarship award. Becca Dill has the story.
Cut 1 (30) “I’m Becca Dill”

With a new high school sports season set to begin, the Louisiana High School Athletic Association is once again looking for officials for the sports they oversee. Lee Sanders is the new director of officials at the LHSAA…
cut 12 (06) “…love being around it”
Go to LHSOA.com for more information.