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• Without its leading scorer, Tennessee trounces LSU 81-65

  20-02-2016 19:53
  
  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee withstood the absence of its leading scorer and delivered a huge blow to LSU's NCAA Tournament hopes.Armani Moore had 17 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists Saturday as Tennessee won 81-65 over LSU to hand the Tigers their most lopsided loss of the season. Tennessee (13-14, 6-8 SEC) played without Kevin Punter Jr., who had a walking boot on his right foot Saturday after getting hurt two nights earlier in a loss at No. 14 Kentucky."It just shows there are a lot of g
  
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• Jeb Bush ends bid for the White House

  20-02-2016 19:46
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. - Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says he is ending his bid for the White House.A teary-eyed Bush says he's proud of the campaign he ran to unify the country and advocate conservative solutions.The son and brother of former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush entered the race to huge expectations in June, and quickly fueled them with fundraising.But he quickly slid in the polls behind some of his more outspoken Republican rivals such as billionaire businessman Don
  
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• Donald Trump wins South Carolina Republican primary

  20-02-2016 18:34
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Donald Trump has won the South Carolina Republican primary, a second-straight victory for the billionaire real estate mogul after his first-place finish in New Hampshire.Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio are in close race for second.Exit polls taken in South Carolina found that about three-quarters of Republican voters support a temporary ban on Muslims who are not American citizens from entering the United States. That's one of Trump's signature proposals.A
  
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• Clinton wins Nevada Democratic caucuses

  20-02-2016 16:27
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. - Hillary Clinton has won the Nevada Democratic caucuses, rebounding after a second-place finish to Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire.The victory for the former secretary of state over the Vermont senator gives her two wins to one in the race for the Democratic nomination.Clinton eked out a win in the Iowa caucuses before Sanders posted an overwhelming victory in New Hampshire's primary.Surveys of caucus-goers taken as they entered caucus sites showed that older women turne
  
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• Edwards in Washington for national governors' meeting

  20-02-2016 16:22
  
  BATON ROUGE - Gov. John Bel Edwards is in Washington for the winter meeting of the National Governors Association.The Democratic governor, in office since January, headed to the nation's capital on Saturday and returns to Louisiana on Monday. In Washington, he'll meet with governors from around the country.The trip will be a brief reprieve for Edwards from a special legislative session that he called to stabilize Louisiana's budget.Edwards is asking lawmakers to raise taxes, use stop-gap financi
  
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• Early voting for La. presidential primaries has started

  20-02-2016 15:46
  
  BATON ROUGE- Voters looking to skip lines to vote in the Louisiana presidential primaries can take advantage of early voting starting Saturday.The Louisiana presidential preference primary for Republicans and Democrats is March 5, but early voting starts Saturday and runs through Feb. 27.
      
  Secretary of State Tom Schedler said in a news release Wednesday voters can cast early ballots daily from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., except for Sunday.
      
  
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• BRPD: 16-year-old dies Saturday after accidental shooting

  20-02-2016 15:18
  
  BATON ROUGE - Police confirmed the death of a 16-year-old  girl shot in the head Thursday.A spokesperson for Baton Rouge Police confirmed that Darneisha Williams died Saturday afternoon. Williams was a Broadmoor High School students. Williams was shot in the head on Brady Street by a 16-year-old male family member. The shooting was ruled accidental and the unidentified boy was charged with negligent injuring and illegal possession of a firearm by a juvenile.The shooting was rep
  
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• Protests to rally across US to back Apple in battle with FBI

  20-02-2016 15:07
  
  SAN FRANCISCO - Protesters are preparing to assemble in more than 30 cities to lash out at the FBI for obtaining a court order that requires Apple to make it easier to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by a gunman in December's mass murders in California.The protests organized by the Internet rights group Fight for the Future are scheduled to occur Tuesday outside Apple stores in more than 20 states.The gatherings will come a week after the FBI went to court to force Apple to weaken the security b
  
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• Resignation adds to woes at New Orleans jail

  20-02-2016 14:08
  
  NEW ORLEANS - An official hired to help with reforms at the violence-plagued New Orleans jail has resigned - the latest complication in court-ordered reform efforts.Carmen DeSadier's resignation was announced late Friday. She's the second chief of corrections for the jail to resign in the past year.Her departure comes as Sheriff Marlin Gusman's office struggles to implement reforms ordered by a federal court as a result of lawsuits by inmate advocates and the Justice Department. Gusman has blame
  
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• Woman in coma after alleged Craigslist roommate attack

  20-02-2016 14:02
  
  MIAMI - A South Florida woman is hospitalized in a coma after she was allegedly attacked by a roommate she recently found on Craigslist.Court records show 35-year-old Byron Mitchell is jailed on attempted murder charges in the Valentine's Day attack on 23-year-old Danielle Jones. Mitchell has entered a written not guilty plea.According to a Miami police report, Mitchell claims it was self-defense and that Jones came at him with a knife. Jones suffered numerous slashes and bruises.Authorities say
  
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• Police could finish Johnny Manziel case by next week

  20-02-2016 13:58
  
  DALLAS - Dallas police say they could conclude their domestic violence investigation of Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel by late next week.Police spokesman Maj. Midge Boyle said Saturday that investigators have reviewed medical records provided by Colleen Crowley, Manziel's ex-girlfriend. Crowley told police Manziel hit her and dragged her into a car in late January.Manziel hasn't been charged, but a judge has issued Crowley a protection order against him.Police haven't interviewed Ma
  
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• Supreme Court scuffle triggering a constitutional clash

  20-02-2016 13:56
  
  WASHINGTON - It only took one man's death to give Congress the opening to permeate its dysfunction throughout the rest of government.Republican opposition to letting President Barack Obama replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia has sparked a constitutional clash over the president's right to fill Supreme Court vacancies.Democrats have their own history of boxing out Republicans over court nominees. They concede that Obama's pick is unlikely to be confirmed.So as both parties prepare for politic
  
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• Harper Lee leaves behind questions about her life and work

  20-02-2016 13:54
  
  NEW YORK - Harper Lee has died, but the conversation about her life and work has only begun.Lee's death Friday at age 89 comes almost exactly a year after her publisher, HarperCollins, stunned the world by announcing that a second novel by the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" would be released, ending what many believed was a permanent and much-desired literary silence.Ralph Eubanks, a former editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review and currently a visiting professor of Southern studies at Mills
  
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• Thousands expected at Mass for Antonin Scalia

  20-02-2016 13:52
  
  WASHINGTON - Thousands of people are expected to attend Saturday's funeral Mass in Washington for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.The Mass is being held at the nation's largest Roman Catholic church - the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. It can hold at least 3,500 people.Among those expected to attend is Vice President Joe Biden.President Barack Obama paid tribute to Scalia at the Supreme Court on Friday. Scalia's flag-draped casket rested on a
  
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• House Republicans don't like John Bel Edwards budget-fixing plan, but haven't offered an alternative yet

  20-02-2016 03:14
  
  As Gov. John Bel Edwards' state agency heads came forward one after another in a marathon session of budget hearings this week, Republicans in the Louisiana House of Representatives made it very clear they didn't like what they were hearing....
  
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