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• Crews respond to house fire on Yazoo Street

  15-10-2017 21:39 via wbrz.com
  BATON ROUGE- The Baton Rouge Fire Department has confirmed it is responding to a house fire on Yazoo street Sunday night.The fire was reported at a home on Yazoo Street near Malmaison Drive around 9 p.m.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Authorities say electrical malfunction caused house fire on Yazoo Street

  15-10-2017 21:39 via wbrz.com
  UPDATE: Authorities say the fire was caused by an electrical malfunction in a bedroom of the home. Firefighters were able to contain the fire in the bedroom. The rest of the house received smoke and water damage. BATON ROUGE- The Baton Rouge Fire Department has confirmed it is responding to a house fire on Yazoo street Sunday night.The fire was reported at a home on Yazoo Street near Malmaison Drive around 9 p.m.This is a developing story. Check back
  
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• Police identify victim in South Brock Place shooting

  15-10-2017 21:18 via wbrz.com
  BATON ROUGE -The victim of a shooting that took place Sunday night on South Brock Place has been identified. Authorities say the victim is 26 year-old Clayton Bradford. Bradford was fatally shot after brandishing a firearm and charging at a 36-year-old male homeowner as he stood in his hard, authorities said. The incident occurred after a verbal altercation.Bradford died at the scene.The shooting happened near the intersection of South Brock&nbsp
  
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• Homeowner kills man who charged him outside of West Brock Place home

  15-10-2017 21:18 via wbrz.com
  BATON ROUGE -The man who was killed in a shooting that took place Sunday night on West Brock Place has been identified. Authorities say the man is 26 year-old Clayton Bradford. Bradford was fatally shot after brandishing a firearm and charging at a 36-year-old male homeowner as he stood in his yard, authorities said. The incident occurred after a verbal altercation.Bradford died at the scene.Permalink| Comments
  
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• BRPD responding to reported shooting on South Brock Place

  15-10-2017 21:18 via wbrz.com
  BATON ROUGE - BRPD is responding to a reported shooting on South Brock Place Sunday evening.Sources said the reported shooting happened near the intersection of South Brock Place and North Brock Place just after 9 p.m.Injuries are unknown at this time, according to Baton Rouge Police spokesman, L'Jean McKneely. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Oakland Raiders give $1M for fire recovery

  15-10-2017 20:02 via wbrz.com
  Santa Rosa, Calif. - The Oakland Raiders say they will donate $1 million toward the relief and recovery effort in California wine country.  The NFL team trains in Napa, and long before that, in Santa Rosa, during the offseason.  Team owner Mark Davis says the cities served as the Raiders' summer home for more than 40 years, and the team has built long-lasting relationships with the people and businesses there.  His message to them: "In this
  
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• Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, dies at 96

  15-10-2017 17:45 via wbrz.com
  BELMONT, Mass. - Richard Wilbur, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator who intrigued and delighted generations of readers and theatergoers through his rhyming editions of Moliere and his own verse on memory, writing and nature, has died. He was 96.  Wilbur's friend, poet Dana Gioia, said he died Saturday night in Belmont, Massachusetts, with his family by his side.  The U.S. poet laureate in 1987-88, Wilbur was often cited as an heir to Robert Frost
  
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• Hundreds line funeral route for slain Boy Scout Ranger

  15-10-2017 17:16 via wbrz.com
  CLINTON - Boy Scouts and those wishing to pay their respects lined Highway 10 Sunday as the body of slain ranger, Brad DeFranceschi, 48, was brought to Masonic Cemetery in Clinton.DeFranceschi was shot and killed Oct. 9. Police identified and arrested Ryan Sharpe for his murder as well as two other men.Friends and family gathered at the Avondale Scout Reservation prior to the procession for DeFranceschi, who had been with the Boy Scouts for over 17 years."Ranger Brad"
  
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• Death toll from Somalia blast rises to 276

  15-10-2017 16:55 via wbrz.com
  MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's information minister Abdirahman Osman says the death toll from Saturday's truck bombing in Mogadishu has risen to 276, with about 300 people injured.  It is the deadliest single attack in Somalia's history. The toll is expected to rise.  Somalia's government has blamed the al-Shabab extremist group, which has not yet commented.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Hurricane Ophelia heads toward Ireland, then UK

  15-10-2017 15:44 via wbrz.com
  LONDON - Authorities in Britain and Ireland say the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia could bring disruption and damage as the work week gets underway.  Ophelia was a category 2 hurricane Sunday as it moved northeast across the Atlantic, with sustained winds of 105 mph (169 kph).  It is expected to weaken to a storm before hitting land Monday, but U.K. Met office forecaster Luke Miall says it could still pack "hurricane-force" winds.  Ireland's
  
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• LSP: 4-year-old killed while walking on LA 14 in Iberia Parish

  15-10-2017 14:57 via wbrz.com
  IBERIA PARISH - A fatal crash involving a pedestrian on LA 14 claimed the life of a 4-year-old Saturday night.According to Louisiana State Police, the crash occurred on LA 14 eastbound at Leleux Road in Iberia Parish sometime before 10:30 p.m.The crash claimed the life of 4-year-old Raylen Jones of New Iberia.Through the initial investigation, State Police determined that Jones and his juvenile sibling were able to exit their residence without detection. At some point, Jones walked out onto LA
  
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• Napa city lifts evacuation advisory

  15-10-2017 14:53 via wbrz.com
  SONOMA, Calif. - Napa lifted an emergency evacuation advisory within city limits on Sunday.  Parts of Napa had been under an evacuation advisory. But the city's 80,000 residents were not under orders to leave their homes.  Officials said on social media that residents should remain on alert because emergency vehicles will continue to be on the roads.  State officials say firefighters made progress battling more than a dozen active f
  
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• Girl, 3, drowns in grease pit at Alabama ice cream shop

  15-10-2017 14:16 via wbrz.com
  AUBURN, Ala. - Authorities say a 3-year-old girl is dead after she fell into a grease pit at an Alabama ice cream shop and drowned.  The Opelika-Auburn News reports the girl's body was pulled Saturday from an in-ground container used to trap cooking grease at Brewster's Real Ice Cream in Auburn.  Lee County Coroner Bill Harris said in a news release the death appears to be an accidental drowning. He said video evidence from the scene showed the girl playing w
  
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• Police investigating after man shot, killed while driving on Plank Rd. Saturday night

  15-10-2017 14:14 via wbrz.com
  BATON ROUGE - Detectives with the Baton Rouge Police Department are investigating a fatal shooting that took place late Saturday night.According to Baton Rouge Police, the shooting claimed the life of Dajourn Holmes, 26, of Baton Rouge.Police believe Holmes was driving his vehicle when he was shot multiple times.Holmes crashed his vehicle into a light pole in the 1700 block of Plank Road around 11:24 p.m. Saturday.Holmes died at the scene, according to Baton Rouge Police.The motive and suspect
  
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• Crash involving multiple motorcycles shuts down I-110 N past Florida Blvd.

  15-10-2017 13:53 via wbrz.com
  BATON ROUGE -  A crash involving five motorcycles shut down I-110 N past Florida Blvd early Sunday afternoon. According to authorities, the crash occurred on I-110 near the Governor's Mansion exit around 11:45 a.m.Four people were transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to authorities. All lanes are now back open on I-110 N.  Permalink| Comments
  
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• LSU returns to top 25 in AP, Coaches polls

  15-10-2017 13:31 via wbrz.com
  BATON ROUGE -  After being knocked out of The Associated Press and Amway Coaches polls, LSU is back in the top 25 in both. The Tigers are now ranked No. 24 in the AP poll and No. 25 in the Coaches poll after a thrilling 20 point comeback against the Auburn Tigers in Tiger Stadium Saturday afternoon.The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Oct. 14, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vot
  
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• Electrical malfunction sparks house fire on Oak Crest Drive

  15-10-2017 13:07 via wbrz.com
  BATON ROUGE - Firefighters with the Baton Rouge Fire Department responded to a working house fire on Oak Crest Drive Sunday morning.According to BRFD, the fire started in the 3100 block of Oak Crest Drive near Graham Drive around 10:40 a.m.The fire was later determined to be caused by an electrical malfunction in the kitchen of the home, according to BRFD.The fire was contained to the kitchen and portions of the attic above. The rest of the home received heavy smoke and heat damage.Red Cross wa
  
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• UK police receive 3 new assault claims against Weinstein

  15-10-2017 12:47 via wbrz.com
  LONDON - British police are investigating three new allegations of sexual assault against film producer Harvey Weinstein.  London's Metropolitan Police force says the same woman was the victim of the assaults that allegedly took place in 2010, 2011 and 2015. It said Sunday that officers from the Child Abuse and Sexual Offenses Command are investigating.  The force did not name Weinstein, in keeping with its policy of not identifying suspects who have not been
  
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• Death toll in Somalia blast rises to 231

  15-10-2017 12:36 via wbrz.com
  MOGADISHU, Somalia - A senator says the death toll from a massive truck bomb blast in Somalia's capital has risen to 231.  Abshir Abdi Ahmed says 275 others were injured. He cites doctors at hospitals he has visited in Mogadishu.  Saturday's blast is the single deadliest attack ever in the Horn of Africa nation.  Many of the bodies in hospital mortuaries are yet to be identified.Permalink| Comments
  
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