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Atlanta TV station severs ties with fired radio hosts over Gleason skit
Former New Orleans Saint and ALS patient Steve Gleason issued a statement on the segment in which three radio hosts mocked him in his battle with the debilitating disease in a segment that enraged ...
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Jindal supports $1M allocation for deaf services
The legislation, signed Tuesday, will steer a slice of state sales tax to the Telecommunications Fund for the Deaf. It was a compromise reached after Jindal opposed a proposal to charge a new, 2-cent monthly tax on cellphones to drum up money for the ...
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Neighborhoods push for tougher enforcement of noise ordinance
"Right now we have a noise ordinance that does not really work well for anybody," said coalition chair Nate Chapman. "We think we can make the noise ordinance more fair and more ...
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Feds again leave empty-handed in Hoffa hunt
The search in a field near Detroit for ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa ended Wednesday, and as with so many past attempts to find him, authorities walked away empty-handed, the FBI ...
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Wednesday Exact Weather forecast Tracking the tropics
Tropical depression two is in the southern Bay Of Campeche moving west-northwest at 9 mph with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and is expected to become a tropical storm late Wednesday night. By Thursday night the storm will move inland and quickly weaken over the mountainous terrain in southern ...
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Our values won Obama says in Berlin
U.S. President Barack Obama followed in the footsteps of past U.S. leaders with a speech Wednesday at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate that a senior administration official said would ask Russia to join the United States in slashing its supply of strategic nuclear ...
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Lil Wayne Im not stepping on U.S. flag in video
Recording artist Lil Wayne meets fans and celebrates his contemporary street wear apparel brand TRUKFIT at his hometown Macy's on Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 in New ...
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Was TWA Flight 800 crash accidental
Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was ...
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Afghanistan suspends security pact talks with U.S. amid Taliban peace process
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen following a security handover ceremony at a military academy outside Kabul June 18, ...
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Police search for missing New Orleans East teen
New Orleans police said 15-year-old Shanna Rodgers was last seen about 10 p.m. Monday in her home in the 4600 block of Gabriel Drive. Rodgers' mother told officers she checked on her daughter, but she was not in her ...
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Ex-mobster tells of Bulger gangs killings
"You killed friends?" Bulger attorney Hank Brennan shot. "Yes," replied prosecution witness John Martorano. "Families?" "Yes." "Strangers?" "Yes." "Innocent people?" "Yes," said Martorano, who has admitted to 20 murders and who earlier served 12 years in prison on a government deal for his cooperation in the case ...
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COL BB North Carolina 4 Louisiana State 2
Trent Thornton hurled seven efficient innings and Brian Holberton homered Tuesday in North Carolina's 4-2 College World Series win over Louisiana State. Thornton, a freshman, allowed two runs on nine hits and overcame four walks while Colin Moran chipped in with three hits, an RBI and two runs scored as the top-seeded Tar Heels eliminated LSU. With the victory, North Carolina advances to ...
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Officer fired after found driving without license plate
The New Orleans Police Department said Jeremy Wilcox was pulled over in July by a St. John Parish sheriff's deputy because he was driving a truck without a license plate. When he ran a check on Wilcox's driver's license, the deputy found out there was an arrest warrant out for Wilcox in St. Charles Parish, where he issued a bad check for $2,505 in September ...
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City officials State law hampers police detail reforms
FROM IMPLEMENTING POLICE DETAIL REFORMS. MAYOR MITCH LANDRIEU ASKED A FEDERAL JUDGE FOR GUIDANCE, BECAUSE THE CITY IS NOW REQUIRED - UNDER A CONSENT DECREE - TO REFORM HOW THE NOPD MANAGES AND COORDINATES OFF DUTY PAID DETAILS. DURING THE RECENTLY ENDED LEGISLATIVE SESSION STATE LAWMAKERS PASSED LAWS DEALING WITH PAID DETAILS THE CITY SAYS CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED. the law prohibits the officer of ...
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Tigers eliminated from CWS in 4-2 loss to North Carolina
After the Tar Heels got blown out by North Carolina State and the Tigers lost a heart-breaker to UCLA Sunday, the No. 1 and No. 4 overall seeds squared off Tuesday afternoon in ...
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Louisiana plant explosion kills 1 injures 5
HOUSTON, June 14 (Xinhua) -- One person was killed and five others were injured in an explosion that rattled a fertilizer plant in the U.S. state of Louisiana Friday evening, local media reported. The explosion, caused by a nitrogen vessel rupture, happened at around 6:15 p.m. at CF Industries in Donaldsonville, a southern city located along the west bank of the Mississippi River, local media ...
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Poll Congress approval rating just 16 percent
According to a new national poll, just 16 percent of Americans approve of the way Congress is handling its job, with 83 percent of those questioned in a CNN/ORC International survey saying they disapprove. The poll was released ...
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Dead zone predictions much less spread than 2012
NEW ORLEANS -- Scientists in Michigan and Louisiana are predicting a big summer "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. In the Chesapeake Bay, a smaller than average dead zone is expected.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released predictions Tuesday for areas with too little oxygen to support life.It says the Gulf zone prediction is 7,286 to 8,561 square miles - anywhere ...
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No injuries reported in pre-dawn Louisiana gas line explosion fire
A pre-dawn blast at a natural gas line lit up the eastern Louisiana sky Tuesday, but no injuries or significant property damage were reported, officials said. The explosion occurred about 5:30 a.m. CDT south of Franklinton, the seat of Washington Parish, The (New Orleans) Time Picayune reported. The 30-inch line was quickly shut down and the fire extinguished, said Vicki Granado, a spokeswoman ...
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Police Jefferson Co. women caught stealing 15 handguns from Carroll Co. home
Jefferson County women were arrested after officials said they were caught in the act of burglarizing a home near Carrollton and stealing more than a dozen handguns.Stephanie M. Carter, 36, of Wintersville, and Kelly L. Downen Nation, 27, of Steubenville, were arrested on Monday.According to a news release from Carroll County Sheriff Dale Williams, the women were arrested around 2 p.m. near the ...
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Thibodaux police Drunk man takes keys flips girlfriend’s car
Police say they located Jackson in the 100 block of Tiger Drive after he flipped his girlfriend's vehicle several times in a ditch on La. Hwy. 3266 in a one-car ...
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$3500 reward in fatal poisoning of 2 bald eagles in Thibodaux
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries are offering $3,500 for information leading to the conviction of whoever killed the national ...
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JPSO Boy 13 kills relative 5 with ‘WWE-style wrestling moves’
Homicide Detective Matt Vasquez says he learned the victim was home alone with her 13-year-old relative who performed "WWE-style wrestling moves" on her the morning of the ...
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Chrysler relents agrees to recall 2.7 million Jeeps
Chrysler Group reversed course and agreed to a recall of 2.7 million Jeeps Tuesday, giving in to the government's request in the final hours before a ...
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Live coverage LSU vs. North Carolina
During the course of the 2013 college baseball season, an eventual matchup between LSU and North Carolina seemed destined for the College World ...
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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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