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Monica Hernandez / Eyewitness News GRETNA, La. - Evandus Lambert has had a post office box at the Gretna Finance Station since it first opened in 2003. But he may soon have to find another location. The post office is among hundreds the United States Postal Service is considering closing around the country, including more than 50 in Louisiana. 'I didn't want to hear it. It was hard to hear it,' said Lambert. 'I hope that they change their mind.' According to the USPS, the Gretna Finance Station has seen d

Monica Hernandez / Eyewitness News NEW ORLEANS -- The murder rate increased in 2011 as the police force steadily shrunk, statistics show. 'Since May of 2010, the police department has lost over 200 police officers,' said NOPD Superintendent Ronal Serpas during a crime forum in Algiers Thursday. 'I've rung up about 100 of them, and the other 100 have retired or resigned of their own makings.' According to Serpas, there are currently just over 1,320 officers on the force, with 990 on uniformed patrol. And wit

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Feature trailer for Made in Dagenham. Set against the backdrop of the 1960s, Made in Dagenham is based on a true story about a group of spirited women who joined forces, took a stand for what was right, and in doing so, found their own inner strength. Although far from the Swinging Sixties of Carnaby Street, life for the women of Dagenham, England is tinged with the sounds and sights of the optimistic era, heard on their radios and seen on their TV sets. Rita O'Grady (Sally Hawkins) reflects that upbeat era, along with her friends and co-workers at the city's Ford Motor Factory -- Sandra (Jamie Winstone), Eileen (Nicola Duffett), Brenda (Andrea Riseborough), Monica (Lorraine Stanley) and Connie (Geraldine James) -- who laugh in the face of their poor conditions. Lisa (Rosamund Pike) is a fiercely intelligent Cambridge-educated woman who feels a bit trapped, tending to the home with a husband that suggests she keep her opinions to herself. She may not live in the same world as the other women, but she shares their views. No one thought the revolution would come to Dagenham, until one day, it did. Rita, who primarily sees herself as a wife and mother, is coerced into attending a meeting with shop steward Connie, sympathetic union representative Albert (Bob Hoskins) and Peter Hopkins (Rupert Graves), Ford's Head of Industrial Relations. What she expects to be simply a day out of work, complete with a free lunch, turns into much more when she and her colleagues become outraged by the lack of respect shown in the meeting to the women employees. With humor, common sense and courage Rita and the other women take on their bosses, an increasingly belligerent local community, and finally the government, as their intelligence and unpredictability proves to be a match for any of their male opponents. Daring to stand up and push boundaries, the women changed a system that no one wanted to admit was broken.