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LATAN SAM - Joystick demonstration in Baton Rouge
Louisiana Assistive Technology Access Network's (LATAN) South Louisiana AT Demonstration Center will be having a SAM - Joystick (Switch-Adapted Mouse - Joystick) demonstration for a limited time. The SAM - Joystick gives users an alternative option to the traditional mouse by giving the user more control over a computer's cursor according to his or her preference. This device features ...
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Texas auction house to sell John Brown leg irons
View Photo Associated Press/Heritage Auctions - This June 17, 2013 provided by Heritage Auctions, shows the pair of leg irons, or shackles, believed to be those used on John Brown during his incarceration at the ...
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Louisiana Gun Law Bobby Jindal Signs Legislation Making Publishing Gun Records A Crime
US Republican Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 15, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty ...
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Trash talk creates a stench with some city officials
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Trash talk is creating quite the stench for some city officials with talks of a second landfill in north Baton Rouge. It's something Baton Rouge isn't used to: hills, but on the other side of a 250 foot tall so-called "hill," is a big pile of trash. More than 400 acres are set aside for the East Baton Rouge Parish North Landfill. Department of ...
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LSU receives SEC papers for transfer player Keith Hornsby
From LSU Sports BATON ROUGE – The LSU Athletics Department received and confirmed Wednesday the signed Southeastern Conference scholarship papers for transfer men's basketball player Keith Hornsby from Williamsburg, Va. Hornsby played the past two seasons at the University of North Carolina Asheville and the 6-4, 190-pound guard will sit out the 2013-14 season under NCAA ...
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State Police investigating man who pointed gun at State Capitol
The search for a missing 10-month-old boy from Birmingham is over. Birmingham police say he and his alleged captor were found in Dallas, Texas around 11:30 Tuesday night. A missing child alert was ...
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Juban Crossing bill being reviewed by Governor Jindal
LIVINGSTON PARISH, LA (WAFB) - Overgrown weeds in empty fields and signs promising a target date that has come and gone is not the scenario for Juban Crossing thousands of residents in Livingston Parish had hoped for by now. "We really would like something to be built around here so we wouldn't have to travel so far," said Parish resident James Thurston. Thurston adds ...
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New obesity label could change treatment access attitude
In a move that has the medical world buzzing, The American Medical Association has changed its stance on obesity, officially declaring it a disease instead of a "public health issue." The new distinction is exciting to local doctors. "By medicalizing this physiologic problem similar to high blood pressure, I think will help change the attitudes in treating it," said Dr. ...
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St. Gabriel woman starts petition to save LA Swift
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Could a St. Gabriel woman's petition save the LA Swift bus system from ending service later this month? Milisa York hopes the signatures of more than 800 people will at least grab someone's attention. Every afternoon, Milisa York's ride picks her up from the Home Depot at Highland Road and Perkins Road. It's one of several stops in the city where ...
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LSP Argument caused hit and run victim to leave car
LIVINGSTON PARISH, LA (WAFB) - State Police say hit and run victim 21-year-old William Iasigi got out of the vehicle after an argument with another passenger in that car. Troopers say Iasigi was hit by Livingston Parish School Board President Malcolm Sibley around 5 a.m. Saturday just north of Greensburg, La. Sibley was arrested Sunday on felony hit and run charges. His attorney says no more ...
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Geralds attorney asking for further sentence reduction
CLINTON, LA (WAFB) - Brett Gerald's attorney Tommy D'Amico says he is appealing to reduce Gerald's sentence even further for a crash that killed seven people in May 2012. D'Amico says that because one crash, or one criminal act, a concurrent sentence is more appropriate for Gerald. Gerald pleaded guilty to seven counts of vehicular homicide in May. Judge William ...
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Jindal signs bill criminalizing release of permits
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Despite criticism it would violate the First Amendment, Gov. Bobby Jindal on Wednesday signed into law a bill that makes it a crime for journalists or anyone else to publicly identify concealed handgun permit holders or ...
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Zachary man indicted for fatal crash
State police say two separate crashes have left two people dead four others injured.The first crash happened just after midnight near the intersection of LA 67 and Noel Thomas Lane. Troopers say ...
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Woman faces eviction looking for homes for her 17 cats
A woman in French Settlement says she is being forced to get rid of some family members, 17 to be exact. After losing her job, she can't afford to take care of her cats anymore and on top of that, she's also being evicted from her home. She says she's more worried about finding her cats a place to live, than finding herself ...
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Louisiana teen allegedly killed half-sister with TV wrestling moves
Police car lights. (QMI Agency) A 13-year-old boy has been charged with murder in New Orleans after causing the death of his 5-year-old half-sister using wrestling moves he had seen on television, police said. Viloude Louis died Sunday afternoon of blunt force trauma to her body, including broken ribs and a damaged liver, police said, after the boy wrestled with her using World Wrestling ...
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Jindal signs equal pay bill for state workers
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Gov. Bobby Jindal has agreed that state agencies should be banned from paying unequal wages to employees of different genders for the same ...
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Waterspout damages power line camp at Grand Isle
Grigsby says radar indicates that the storm weakened and broke apart as it moved over the barrier island. He says meteorologists won't know whether it stayed on the ground until they go to Grand Isle and survey the ...
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Waterspout forms in Grand Isle LA
waterspout Wednesday afternoon. WWL-TV in New Orleans says that the Grand Isle Fire Department is reporting a power line was knocked down and there was some shingle damage on a home, as the spout mostly stayed out to sea. The waterspout happened around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. The video was shot by Tyler Smith of Grand Isle. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
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Prairieville man arrested on child pornography charges
The search for a missing 10-month-old boy from Birmingham is over. Birmingham police say he and his alleged captor were found in Dallas, Texas around 11:30 Tuesday night. A missing child alert was ...
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Privatization backed for LSUs Bogalusa hospital
bogalusa medical center BATON ROUGE - The LSU Board of Supervisors has agreed to a contract privatizing its rural Bogalusa hospital in January. The Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, which operates four private hospitals in Louisiana, will take over management of LSU's Bogalusa Medical Center, effective Jan. 6. As with similar previous deals, the board signed off on the ...
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6 arrested in La. in explosives investigation
The president and at least two other executives of a Louisiana explosives recycling company were among six people arrested Tuesday in the investigation of how the material was ...
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Family of seven survives fire that destroys duplex
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - A Baton Rouge couple and their five children are safe and are thankful they survived a fire that destroyed their home early Wednesday morning. The father was at work when the fire started and the mother jumped into action to get her children out of the house. The fire sparked at a duplex in the 700 block of Holt Drive in Baton Rouge shortly after 3 a.m. Holt is off ...
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Upcoming lane ramp closures in the New Orleans area
The I-10 East on ramp from veterans Memorial Boulevard will close from 9:30 p.m. June 19 to 5:30 a.m. June 20 while crews move pile driving equipment across the ramp. A suggested detour is the Clearview Parkway entrance to I-10 ...
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Ex-BP employees face new indictments over spill
Federal prosecutors have secured new indictments against a former BP engineer and a former BP executive charged separately with obstructing probes of the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of ...
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Tropical Storm Barry forms off Mexican coast
Forecasters say a tropical depression crossing Mexico's Bay of Campeche is getting better organized and is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall along Mexico's Gulf ...
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Louisiana's recovery might be brought to its knees
The six-month moratorium suspending all exploratory oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is another blow to an economy already reeling and could potentially undermine the state for years to come.
There can be no one left in Louisiana who has not heard about the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the oil spill that has resulted from the collapse of the rig, which killed eleven people in the process and is now threatening the livelihoods of countless communities along the state’s coast. Read more
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