With the immigration crackdown in New Orleans approaching, an immigration lawyer is reminding you of your rights, should you encounter a Border Patrol agent. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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The Rapides Parish facility where plastic containers are manufactured for companies around the world announces a major expansion. Andre Champagne reports.

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Lafayette Police arrest two Vermillion Parish men for allegedly assaulting a man who was walking home from Festivals Acadiens et Creoles last month. Tristan Frederick and Tynes Chaney, who are both 23, are charged with second-degree battery in the October 12th attack on Dustyn Cope. Sergeant Robin Green says important evidence led investigators to the two men.

Cut 3 (09) “…after the festival.”

Cope is half Filipino and says the attack was racially motivated, with his attackers and others with them calling him racial slurs. Sergeant Green says the exact motive at this time, however, remains unclear.

Cut 4 (07) “…not prove that.”

Green says attacks like this one cast a very dark shadow on Lafayette.

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A Baton Rouge immigration lawyer is reminding you of your rights should you be approached by a Border Patrol officer during the immigration crackdown operation that will be getting underway soon in and around New Orleans. David Rozas says the right to remain silent extends to everyone in the country, whether they’re citizens or immigrants.

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Rozas says if you do exercise your right to remain silent, you may still be detained, but the grounds for the federal agents to detain you have been playing out in the federal courts. Rozas says especially during the operation, immigrants who are in the country legally need to make an extra effort to have their required identification with them at all times.

Cut 7 (11) “…search and seizure.”

While President Trump, Governor Landry and others maintain that the federal agents are going after the most violent criminals, Rozas says the people they’ll really be going after are other people entirely, and they’ll be targeting them solely based on the color of their skin.

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The LSU Board of Supervisors has called for a special meeting tomorrow to discuss the lawsuit filed by Brian Kelly against LSU as the former Tigers football coach is seeking his entire 54-million-dollar buyout. Piper Hutchinson with the Louisiana Illuminator says most of the meeting will take place behind closed doors

Cut 9 (10)  “.of the meeting.”

When LSU fired Kelly last month they said negotiations over the size of the buyout would continue. Contractually, Kelly is due 54-million dollars, but according to the lawsuit filed by Kelly’s attorneys, the school is seeking to fire Kelly with cause, which means they would not have to pay any of the buyout. Hutchinson says we will find out tomorrow on how LSU plans to respond to Kelly’s lawsuit…

Cut 10 (09) “…meeting is over.”

Hutchinson says once the board members emerge from executive session, they will announce their next steps in the Kelly buyout dispute…

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Plastipak Manufacturing announces a major expansion of its Pineville manufacturing facility. The nearly 54-million-dollar plan will add 200-thousand square feet to its facility, and it will create 15 direct jobs and 25 indirect jobs while retaining 340 current positions. Louisiana Central President and CEO Chris Masingill says Plastipak is one of the global leaders in plastic packaging.

Cut 12 (12) “…supply chain synergy.”

Masingill says as such, if you use a certain brand of detergent, the bottle that it’s contained in was manufactured in Rapides Parish.

Cut 13 (10)  “…from that facility.”

Masingill says the expansion of the facility is a huge economic win for the entire Central Louisiana region.

Cut 14 (12) “…and business climate.”

The project is expected to be completed by the end of next year.

Three former employees at a Lake Charles Christian school are arrested for allegedly covering up sexual assaults involving football players. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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College football reporters had a chance today to ask Lane Kiffin about his coaching future. Jeff Palermo has more on what the Ole Miss coach had to say and didn’t say….

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Three former employees at a Lake Charles Christian school are arrested for allegedly covering up sexual assaults at the school from earlier this year. Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Stitch Guillory says there was a culture on the Hamilton Christian School football team in which older players would haze the younger players.

Cut 3 (07) “…a sexual assault.”

Sheriff Guillory says the principal at the time, Morgan Daugherty, and one of the assistant coaches, Dominique Washington, knew about the incidents and, as school personnel, they were required to report them to law enforcement.

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Guillory says both Daugherty and Washington were arrested and charged with failure to report certain felonies and obstruction of justice; their bonds are set at more than a million dollars apiece.

Cut 5 (04) “…of our investigation.”

In addition, a school cook, 58-year-old Stacy Bargeman, was arrested for allegedly sending threatening messages to other school personnel about the investigation. She’s charged with cyberstalking, and her bond is set at 75-hundred dollars. No football players have been arrested so far; Guillory says the investigation is ongoing.

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Louisiana is the first state in the country to be approved for almost 1.36-billion dollars in federal funding to expand broadband internet access across the state. Veneeth Iyengar, the executive director of Connect-L-A, says it will allow the state to provide everyone in the state with reliable, cost-effective high-speed internet.

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Iyengar says the federal funding is a major milestone for the state’s GUMBO 2.0 program. 

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The announcement by the federal government comes on the heels of Connect-L-A completing a major broadband expansion project in Vernon Parish. Iyengar says despite the scope of that project, it still left out three-thousand locations in the parish, and this federal funding will allow it to finish the job.

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Lincoln Parish is mourning the death of Ruston Fire Department Chief Chris Womack, who died at the age of 54 after a brief battle with cancer.  Ruston Mayor Ronny Walker appointed Womack as fire chief in 2015 and says his leadership of that department is unparalleled…

Cut 9 (10)  “..was fair.”

Walker says during Womack’s time as Fire Chief, the Ruston Fire Department achieved a Class 1 rating for the first time in the city’s history.  The mayor says Chief Womack also played a critical role in the construction of a new fire station and fire tower for training. Walker says Womack started with the Ruston Fire Department in the early 1990s…

Cut 10 (10) “…he did.”

Walker says Womack will be missed…

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Walker says Womack found out months ago he had cancer after the disease was detected because of a new-mandatory state cancer screening for current and former firefighters.

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Ole Miss head football coach Lane Kiffin was grilled by reporters about his future during the SEC football coaches weekly media teleconference, but Kiffin didn’t provide any new insight. Kiffin was asked if Rebels athletics director Keith Carter has given him an ultimatum to decide on where he plans to coach next season…

Cut 12 (10) “…this point.”

Speculation over Kiffin’s future at Ole Miss has been the talk of college football. The rumors really began to swirl after Kiffin’s ex-wife, Layla Kiffin, reportedly visited Gainesville and Baton Rouge this week as Florida and LSU have targeted Kiffin as their top target to be their next head coach.

There have been reports Ole Miss does not want Kiffin coaching the team in the playoffs if he’s planning on staying. So he was asked will he coach in the Egg Bowl against Mississippi State on November 28^th…

Cut 13 (09)  “ be at work.”

The early signing period for recruits is in the first week of December, so programs that have vacancies at head coach are really pushing to have a head coach in place before December third. Here’s a direct question to Kiffin about coaching the Rebels in the postseason…

Cut 14 (05) “…other jobs.”