| By Drew Broach | Deputy metro editor
'WE'RE OWNING IT': Amid scrutiny over troopers’ beatings of Black motorists in high-profile cases, Louisiana State Police plan to shell out $1.5 million for a top-down review of department policies by a private consulting firm. “I don’t like how we got here,” Superintendent Lamar Davis said Friday. “I don’t. But we’re here, we’re owning it and we’re fixing it.”
SUPPORT NETWORK: Sienna Wischkaemper's father, Ryan, describes the youngest of his three daughters as a happy child - athletic, outgoing and sociable - the kid who always makes younger children the focus of her attention at family gatherings. But these days, it's the large extended family that's focusing on 14-year-old Sienna, a month after she suffered a serious head injury in a two-vehicle crash on the way to school with her two older sisters.
CHICKEN AND A SMILE: You've seen the Facebook video. Now meet Cynthia Carter, the delightful voice who entertains customers in the drive-thru lane at the Loyola Drive Popeyes in Kenner.
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