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Jefferson Hills attorney tops field for district justice
Jefferson Hills attorney Guy Reschenthaler has won both party nominations for the magisterial district judge's seat Pat A. Capolupo is ...
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Fletchers 2013 NBA mock draft
WDSU sports anchor Fletcher Mackel thinks the rebuilding franchise will select 19-year-old Croatian small forward Dario Saric with their pick. Below is Fletcher 2013 NBA mock ...
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Gun shop owner has plans for firearms university in Jefferson County
Matt Gumersell has lofty plans to expand his gun shop business to another section of the county.There's no secret to his timing. Gun sales are booming, and in Jefferson County alone, more concealed-carry permits have been issued this year than all of last.Gumersell, the owner of Sovereign Arms in Arnold, has his eye on the grounds of a shuttered Catholic school in the Imperial area. He ...
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Man burglarized several car dealerships Kenner police say
, 49, confessed to committing numerous burglaries and thefts at car dealerships throughout the metropolitan area, according to a police news ...
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WDSU Second Harvest raise $35k in one night to help Okla. recover
WDSU and the Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana raised just under $35,000 in a Tuesday night drive to help victims of the Oklahoma ...
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Letter Journalism in New Orleans
To the Editor: On behalf of the more than 150 extraordinary journalists at The Times-Picayune and its Web site, NOLA.com, I want to assure David Carr that we are not the ...
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Pelicans get No. 6 pick in NBA draft lottery
The New Orleans Pelicans have received the sixth overall pick in Tuesday night's NBA draft lottery, dropping a spot after finishing with the fifth-worst record in the league this past ...
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Tornado among strongest storms to hit US
The tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs this week ranks among the strongest storms ever to strike the United States, packing powerful winds that topped 200 ...
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Legislation targets new Planned Parenthood clinic
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Lawmakers are looking for ways to create roadblocks for Planned Parenthood's construction of a new facility in New Orleans that would provide abortions in addition to other health care services for ...
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House overwhelmingly refuses to expand Medicaid
reform BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana House has rejected an attempt to provide government-subsidized health insurance to thousands of people with the Medicaid dollars available under the federal Affordable Care Act. The 59-37 vote against the Medicaid expansion proposal appeared to kill the issue for the legislative session. The Senate's budget committee has refused a similar bill. Gov. ...
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Kenner school recalls recent tornado
Just a month ago, a tornado touched down less than a half-mile from the Audubon Elementary School - forcing students to take cover. "It started out as a normal day, but within minutes, the weather quickly turned dangerous," said Principal Bernard Tassin. Tassin said on April 24 his staff worked quickly to ensure the school's 500-plus students were in a safe location as an EF-1 ...
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I-Team Covington officers heard using racial slurs in patrol car
A 2010 audio tape, obtained exclusively by the WDSU I-Team, is riling up members of the Greater Covington NAACP and African-American community on the ...
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Oklahoma tornado cuts 17-mile path
Search-and-rescue crews with dogs went through smashed houses and crushed cars on Tuesday, looking for signs of life a day after a monster tornado pulverized a vast swath of suburbs of Oklahoma ...
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New Orleans Police ID Parade Shooting Suspect
New Orleans police have identified Akein Scott as the alleged gunman in Sunday's Mother's Day parade shooting in the Big Easy. "We would like to remind the community and Akein Scott that the time has come for him to turn himself in," Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said of Scott, describing him as "no stranger to the criminal justice system." Officers say ...
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New Orleans prays for Oklahoma
A tornado struck just Moore, Oklahoma, south of Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, May 20, 2013, ripping apart homes and other buildings in populated areas. The National Weather Service issued a rare tornado emergency for the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, meaning that significant and widespread damage and fatalities were ...
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Senate defers gun bill ban on federal oversight
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Senators have delayed a vote on a controversial bill that would prohibit enforcement in Louisiana of any federal bans on assault ...
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Students send messages of hope to Oklahoma
"We are so sorry what happened to you. We will pray for you and hope you get well. You are in our hearts," said Adelaide Laurant as she read aloud from a card she ...
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Police Nursing home employee stole residents jewelry sold to pawn shops
Slidell police said they arrested a woman who stole jewelry and a digital camera from several elderly people at a nursing home and sold it to pawn ...
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Weather service Okla. Tornado was EF5
Search and rescue crews with dogs went through smashed houses and crushed cars on Tuesday, looking for signs of life in the aftermath of the monster tornado that pulverized a vast swath of Oklahoma City's ...
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Indy poised to make 2018 bid for Super Bowl
Less than an hour after the league announced San Francisco would host the 50th Super Bowl in 2016 and Houston would host the game in 2017, Indiana Sports Corp. president Allison Melangton told reporters she would ...
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Chemical prompts bomb squad response at Jefferson County school
The bomb squad from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is responding to West Jefferson Middle School on Tuesday afternoon.The sheriff's office reports that students were evacuated from the school, 9449 S. Barnes Ave., Conifer, after an unstable item was found in a chemistry lab.The evacuated students were gathered at the football field while the danger was assessed.The incident ...
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Cleco sends crew to help in wake of Oklahoma tornado
Cleco Corp. is sending a 34-member crew to Oklahoma City to help Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company restore power to customers after a tornado destroyed its electric ...
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AP Charlotte Bobcats to change team name to Hornets
The person says Jordan will detail the timetable for the change to be completed at a press conference the Bobcats have scheduled for Tuesday. The person spoke to The Associated Press Monday on condition of anonymity because the name change has not been publicly ...
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Judge gags attorneys witnesses relatives in Akein Scott case
Citing the extensive media coverage already given to the case, Judge Arthur Hunter has issued a gag order on attorneys, witnesses, relatives and others close to Akein Scott, the 19-year-old accused of firing shots into a second line crowd on Mother's ...
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Police 17-year-old bicyclist killed Monday in St. Bernard Parish
Police say Chase Naquin of Arabi was bicycling west on the eastbound shoulder of LA 39 near Deer Creek Street when he turned into the eastbound lane oncoming ...
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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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