Baton Rouge Police have arrested two men in connection with the shooting death of West. St. John High School football coach Juan Joseph. Eric Gill reports…
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Farm Sanctuary and the Animal Welfare Institute have listed the Pilgrims Pride plant in Natchitoches as one of the nine worst chicken plants in the nation for animal cruelty. Eric Gill has more…
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Baton Rouge Police have arrested two cousins in connection with the shooting death of West. St. John High School football coach Juan Joseph. Cpl. Don Coppola says they arrested 25-year-old Lemark Cloud Monday night. He says 25-year-old Kendric Cloud was taken into custody Tuesday…
Kendric has been identified as the shooter in the death of Joseph, while Lemark is the alleged getaway driver. It is reported that both men have criminal histories. Coppola says the investigation is ongoing and little is known about the incident at this time…
It is reported that Joseph was trying to diffuse the situation when the shooting occurred. Lemark has been charged with accessory to second degree murder and other charges due to his involvement. Coppola says Kendric was booked into the East Baton Rouge Prison last night… (Kendric is charged with second degree murder, illegal use of a weapon, and felon in possession of a firearm.)
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Record lows were hit in southeast Louisiana this morning, but warmer weather is on the way. Andrew Ansorge (An-Sore-Gy) with the National Weather Service says Baton Rouge broke the record temperature dating all the way back to January 1930…:
Ansorge says this morning New Orleans tied the record of 31 degrees going back to 1951. But he says the high pressure that settled the cold air in last night is going to start to move off to the east today..:
Ansorge says air will be moving in from the south through the remainder of the week into the weekend and along with it will be moisture…:
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The Pilgrims Pride plant in Natchitoches is listed as one of the nine worst chicken plants in the nation for animal cruelty. The list was compiled by Farm Sanctuary and the Animal Welfare Institute. Farm Sanctuary director of policy, Bruce Friedrich (FREED-rick), says they obtained plant violation information from the federal government through the Freedom of Information Act…
He says Pilgrims Pride is responsible for almost a fifth of all poultry production in the United States and they have three plants on the list. Friedrich says one violation that put the Natchitoches plant on the list was the report of workers routinely throwing live birds into bags of dead on arrival birds…
In a statement, Pilgrims Farms says the plant has addressed the concerns raised through voluntary corrective actions to ensure compliance with their internal policies and state and federal laws. But Friedrich says it’s not enough for the company to say we’ll do better next time…
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Two bodies were found in Lake Pontchartrain this morning and authorities believe they were on board a plane that crashed into the lake last week. New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Colonel Jerry Sneed, says the first body was located at 7:15 AM….
Sneed says a second body was located a short time later . We are still waiting to hear a positive ID on the two bodies, but it’s believed to be flight instructor Burt Lattimore of Chalmette and Aftab Rab of Mandeville, who was taking flying lessons. …
Sneed says they found the first body about a mile away from the runway where the Cesna 172 took off. He says they are still searching for the plane…