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Rescuers search board by board for survivors
Amid downed power lines, hissing gas pipes and immense devastation, rescuers searched "board by board" Tuesday for survivors and victims of a massive tornado that pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City ...
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1 adult 2 juveniles arrested in connection with Montz fires
Beau Badeaux, 24, along with two male minors, ages 16 and 15, were arrested on three counts of aggravated arson each. Additionally, Badeaux was booked on six counts of delinquency of a ...
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JPSO 2 Monday night Harvey shootings leave 2 men dead
Officers followed a trail of blood leading across the street to an open field in the 2200 block of Alex Kornman Street. There, officers found the body of 32-year-old Larry Wix. He was pronounced dead on the ...
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Oil Tank Explodes in Louisiana
An oil tank has exploded in Louisiana, several miles outside of Baton Rouge, reported the Associated Press. The explosion, which happened late Thursday night near Denham Springs, prompted the evacuation of 30 to 35 homes. No injuries have been reported thus far. The fire is contained in a 200-square-footarea. One of two oil holding tanks that were at the scene ruptured and caught fire but ...
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Okla. tornado death toll revised down to at least 24
A massive, howling tornado pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, chewing up homes and businesses, and severely damaging a hospital and two elementary ...
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Okla. Medical examiner expects more bodies
The vicious tornado that tore across central Oklahoma on Monday has killed at least 51 people -- with about 40 more bodies expected to arrive at the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office, Amy Elliott of the coroner's office said. The official death toll will gradually rise as the bodies are ...
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Jefferson City doctor who received emergency suspension allowed back in medicine
When a ferocious storm hit De Soto High School dead-on in 2003, no children were hurt, thanks in part to the efforts of two track coaches who ...
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Help The Victims Of The Oklahoma Tornadoes
A U.S. flag lays among debris in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013 following a tornado up to a mile wide which swept through the Oklahoma City ...
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Delgado baseball team avoids Oklahoma tornado
The Delgado baseball team was in Oklahoma competing for a shot to go to the Junior College World Series. Instead, they encountered a series of severe ...
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Merging Could Secure The Future of Health Care in Jefferson Parish
Representatives from East and West Jefferson hospitals say a merger with a bigger hospital system is the works. For that to happen the rules have to be changed in the form of House Bill 383. This legislation would amend the current law which would now allow elected official to determine the hospital's fatenot voters. House Bill 383 has made it through the house and is expected to ...
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Did New Orleans exploit the Dalai Lama
New Orleans did win the lottery by scoring a visit from one of the most influential people in the world! We were lucky enough to have the Dalai Lama in town for a few days. A picture on the city’s ...
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Maine Street near Jefferson Highway
One day we decided: ';We should do a story on all the potholes around New Orleans.'; And Pothole of the Day was born. Let us know if you have a pothole near you by sending us an e-mail: ...
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State medical examiners office 37 killed in Oklahoma tornado death toll expected to rise
May 20 Oklahoman staff tornadoes/storms gallery View photos of the May 20, 2013, tornado and severe weather damage 41 ...
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Louisiana revokes companys explosives license
JACKSON, Miss. - An explosives recycling company that authorities said improperly stored millions of pounds of a military propellant, causing the evacuation of a Louisiana town last year, was stripped of its state explosives licenses on Monday.Louisiana State Police spokeswoman Julie Lewis said Explo System Inc.'s state explosives licenses will remain revoked "pending the adjudication ...
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Broadmoor residents discuss crime camera initiative
"Our car broken into three times in the last year, and as recently as last week somebody came in and took the headlight right out of my wife's Volkswagen," Broadmoor resident Jeff Gardner ...
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Audit finds workers stole for Jefferson Parish schools
"I just don't understand how someone could steal money from kids, especially from the school that really needs it," said Christiana Compton, who has two children who attended Jefferson Elementary ...
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Officials 6 killed in OKC tornado
A powerful tornado blasted an area outside of city on Monday, ripping roofs off buildings, leveling homes and leaving a massive band of destruction in its ...
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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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