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Crime Or Fabricated Story?

Good evening this is Maggie Wade with a look ahead to some of the stories you'll see tonight at 10 on WLBT.

Investigators in Louisiana now say the 20 year old woman who claimed she was set on fire by three men in white hoodies who scratched a racial slur on her car, fabricated the story.

An update tonight on an accident we first told you about last night in Rankin County. One person was ejected from the car driven by an 18 year old. The passengers were 15 and 9 years old.

Also two men who escaped from a Forrest County Community Work Center over the weekend have been arrested at a bar on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. They are now being charged with capital murder in the death of an elderly woman.

Colder temperatures are on the way! Meteorologist Eric Law says temperatures could drop by as much as 20 degrees in the next few days. He will have your First Alert Forecast!

And Sports Director Rob Jay says legendary basketball coach Lafayette Stribling is calling it quits and he will take us back Outdoors with Bobby Cleveland!

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