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• LSU considering Dameyune Craig for WR coach position, report says

  14-02-2016 19:06
  
  Former Auburn QB and top-notch recruiter.
  
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• 22-year-old man dies after shootout with Baton Rouge police

  14-02-2016 18:40
  
  Calvin Smith, 22, of Baton Rouge died late Saturday
  
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• Governor's special session on budget, taxes opens Sunday

  14-02-2016 14:53
  
  BATON ROUGE - Valentine's Day isn't arriving with flowers or candy for Louisiana's lawmakers, but with bleak budget discussions and tax talk.The House and Senate on Sunday afternoon are opening a special legislative session called by Gov. John Bel Edwards to deal with the state's deficit-riddled finances.Edwards, in office since January, aims to dig Louisiana out of its perpetual budget troubles with a wide array of tax proposals that could have most people and businesses paying more to the stat
  
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• Edwards addresses lawmakers as special session begins

  14-02-2016 14:53
  
  BATON ROUGE - Two of Louisiana's prominent Republican politicians were targets in Gov. John Bel Edwards' speech to open the legislative session.The Democratic governor never named former Gov. Bobby Jindal and state Treasurer John Kennedy directly. But he took digs at Jindal as helping to create the state's financial troubles and at Kennedy for suggestions they could be fixed without taxes.Edwards is asking lawmakers to raise taxes to help close budget gaps.The governor promised he wouldn't be in
  
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• Utah teen delivers 900 carnations for Valentine's Day

  14-02-2016 14:51
  
  SMITHFIELD, Utah - Every girl at a Utah high school got flowers for Valentine's Day thanks to the generosity of a male classmate.Seventeen-year-old Hayden Godfrey spent $450 on 900 carnations, ensuring that all 834 females at Sky View High School in Smithfield would get one.He handed the flowers out Thursday to 50 classrooms.Godfrey has randomly passed out flowers for Valentine's Day since he was a freshman but never to this scale.The senior told The Herald Journal of Logan that many girls feel
  
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• Big 'Deadpool' debut annihilates 'Fifty Shades' record, more

  14-02-2016 14:42
  
  LOS ANGELES - The R-rated "Deadpool" has taken the box office by storm, annihilating records with an eye-popping $135 million from its first three days in theaters according to comScore estimates Sunday.The Fox film, which stars Ryan Reynolds as the foul-mouthed superhero, easily trounced last year's record-setting $85.2 million February debut of the erotic drama "Fifty Shades of Grey." It also became the biggest R-rated opening ever, surpassing "The Matrix Reloaded," which opened to $91.8 milli
  
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• Jeb Bush: Senate court vote 'not important' to him

  14-02-2016 14:38
  
  WASHINGTON - Jeb Bush says it doesn't matter to him whether Senate Republicans vote on any Supreme Court nominee President Barack Obama may send to Capitol Hill to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.Bush tells CNN's "State of the Union" that the decision is up to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell - who's said there will be no such vote until Obama leaves office in January.The Republican presidential candidate says it's "really not important to me" whether there's a vote before then.That senti
  
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• Schumer slams Obama budget cuts to anti-terror funds

  14-02-2016 14:33
  
  NEW YORK - U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is slamming a White House proposal that would cut nearly $300 million from counterterrorism programs.The New York Democrat notes that the recently released budget proposal would reduce the Urban Area Security Initiative from $600 million to $330 million. The initiative helps cities nationwide with programs to prevent, respond to and recover from extremist attacks.Schumer says the proposal is "ill-advised" and "makes no sense." He is pushing President Barack O
  
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• Hunters find casket in wildlife refuge

  14-02-2016 13:11
  
  NATCHEZ, Miss. - Hunters in Mississippi found an intact casket in a wildlife refuge, and authorities returned it to its grave.Adams County Coroner James Lee says the casket apparently floated out of a family cemetery on the refuge during floods in January.He says he was called Saturday to deal with the casket, found in the open at the St. Catherine Creek National Wildlife Refuge. He says it held the remains of someone who had been buried within the last six months.Lee says he and the sh
  
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• Driver in crash that killed 5, arrested hours prior for DUI

  14-02-2016 12:55
  
  DAYTON, Ohio - Records show the driver of a wrong-way car that killed five in a crash including himself was jailed just over a day earlier on suspicion of drunken driving.Driver James Pohlabeln was arrested early Thursday after his car collided with a parked car.The paper reports Pohlabeln was arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and failure to control. He was released about 7 p.m. Thursday.Investigators suspect Pohlabeln had been drinking when he drove the wrong way on Interstate
  
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• Two killed in 16 car California crash

  14-02-2016 12:36
  
  MERCED, Calif. - Authorities say two men died over the weekend in a car crash that set off a series of collisions involving 16 cars in a foggy Central California highway.California Highway Patrol Officer Moises Onsurez says two passengers were killed and the driver had major injuries after their pickup collided into the back of a milk truck before being hit by two other cars on Highway 59 on Saturday.A second crash was reported in the same area as officers were responding to the first call. A sh
  
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• Mississippi police officer shot in head

  14-02-2016 12:22
  
  CLARKSDALE, Miss. - Authorities in northwest Mississippi say an officer was shot while investigating a robbery.Mayor Bill Luckett says Officer Derrick Couch was found on the street outside a convenience store that had been robbed late Saturday by two masked men. The report said the officer was hospitalized after being shot in the head.Police have released a video of two possible suspects, including one with a noticeable limp.Luckett says one of the masked men was carrying a gun as the t
  
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• John Bel Edwards presents budget for next year with drastic cuts to almost every state agency and program

  14-02-2016 02:28
  
  Gov. John Bel Edwards' budget proposal for the fiscal cycle that begins July 1 includes dramatic cuts to higher education, health care, the attorney general's office, youth services -- really almost every area of state government.
  
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