A 7-year-old who shot his aunt twice for not feeding him will not face charges, according to Webster Parish authorities. Emelie Gunn has more…
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LSU’s new mascot, Mike VII, appears to be right at home and loving his new habitat on campus since being introduced Monday. Michelle Southern reports..:
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Webster Parish Sheriff Gary Sexton says a 7-year-old boy who shot his aunt two times for not feeding him will not be charged with a crime. He says Louisiana law states a child under the age of 10 cannot form intent, so they do not have the authority to file charges against the boy. He says the child has had some problems in the past…
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Sexton says police responded to a home outside of Minden last week and found Amanda Gipson suffering from two gunshot wounds. He says Gipson claimed this was an accident but authorities do not believe that.
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Sexton says Gipson was transported to University Health in Shreveport and is now recovering at home. He says they are very concerned with the 7-year-old’s well-being because this was not an accident.
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LSU’s new mascot, Mike VII, appears to be right at home and loving his new habitat on campus since being introduced Monday. Formerly Harvey, the tiger was donated to LSU by the Wild at Heart Wildlife Center in Okeechobee, Florida. Jeremy Hargett is the co-owner of the rescue facility. He says Harvey was originally bread as a “photo cub” to sell to zoos…:
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Hargett says when Mike’s veterinarian came to visit him for the first time, he fell in love almost immediately…:
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Hargett says when they re-home big animals like Mike, they pray that they end up in a good, thriving situation. He says now that Harvey has a new home in Baton Rouge surrounded by love and LSU fans, they aren’t worried about him one bit…:
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Forecasters says there’s an excellent chance the remnants of Tropical Storm Harvey will reform in the Gulf of Mexico and head towards the Texas coast this week. State Climatologist Barry Keim says the system is over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and heading into the Bay of Campeche
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Keim says most of the models have the area of low pressure developing into a tropical storm, possibly even into a hurricane and making landfall between Corpus Christi and Galveston
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Tropical Storm Harvey fizzled out last week in the Caribbean, but Keim says it should re-generate in a more conducive environment in the western Gulf of Mexico and threaten Texas…
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President Donald Trump stated last night that America must fight to win the war in Afghanistan, where U.S. troops have been stationed since 2001. Louisiana GOP Chairman Roger Villere says the United States should’ve never been in this war but he agrees with the president’s sentiments.
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Trump says he would work with the Afghan government and other south Asian countries. Villere says it’s easy to blow up army bases and kill a few generals and soldiers but…
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The president did not say how many additional troops he would send into Afghanistan and seemed to agree with the Pentagon’s suggestion for sending in about 4-thousand soldiers. Villere says it’s time to fix this mess and end the war in Afghanistan.
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