The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office recognized two deputies for a dramatic rescue Saturday morning after a boat drifted nearly two miles from three duck hunters in freezing, windy, and rough marsh waters near Goose Point in Lacombe. Deputy Joey Schwindling and Sergeant Jared Mire braved icy conditions — being “covered in ice head to toe” — to first rescue the hunters and then retr...
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