Republican Senator David Vitter hopes President Obama calls for an expanded US military effort against the Islamic State terrorist group who has been responsible for numerous killings and beheadings. What Vitter wants to hear tonight in the President’s speech? …

CUT 12 (09) Q: “ISIS threat”

The speech is on tonight at 8.

The 12-year-old boy from Pearl River recovering from a rare alligator attack which took place in Lake Ponchartrain over the weekend is back home. According to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Alligator Management Program, this case is only the 14th attack in the state since 1966. LDWF spokesman Bo Boehringer says this doesn’t happen often but it can happen…:

CUT 9 (08) “can be encountered”
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Bomb threats to four Rapides Parish schools yesterday has resulted in a Central Texas teenager charged with three counts of communicating false information of planned bombing on school property. It’s all started with threats to Alexandria Senior High, then Pineville High…

CUT 3 (13) Q: “Bolton High School”

That’s Alexandria Police Lt. Bruce Fairbanks who says seventeen year-old Reuben David Byon of Fredricksburg, Texas is facing very stiff penalties.

An Iberia Parish man allegedly injested a lethal amount of narcotics while being barracading in a room of the residence during a drug bust. Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office says thirty-five year-old Heath Duplechain is in a medically induced coma, and deputies say he will be facing numerous drug charges, if he makes it.