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• Possible double-homicide suspect arrested after high-speed chase

  27-02-2016 20:25
  
  St. FRANCISVILLE – Authorities confirmed that multiple law enforcement agencies were involved in a high speed chase Saturday night that ended in a crash near the Mississippi state line.St. Francisville Police Chief Scott Ford told WBRZ News 2 that Louisiana State Police arrested a man named Derrick Siner around 6 p.m. Ford said Siner may be a suspect in a double homicide in the St. Martinville area.Ford said the suspect crashed his vehicle in the Laurel Hill area but is safe and unharm
  
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• Former LSU football player Karnell Hatcher booked with DWI

  27-02-2016 19:43
  
  Played at LSU from 2008-11.
  
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• Deputies investigating deadly shooting on Prescott Rd.

  27-02-2016 16:59
  
  BATON ROUGE -Deputies are investigating a deadly shooting in Baton Rouge Saturday morning.According to the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office, 30-year-old Dalina Stamsberry was killed after a shooting occurred on Prescott Road around 11:20 a.m.EBRSO said the investigation is still ongoing. This is a developing story. Stay tuned to WBRZ News 2 online and on Facebook and Twitter for more updates as new information becomes available.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Early voting indicates interest in Louisiana's presidential primary

  27-02-2016 16:47
  
  NEW ORLEANS - If the in-person early voting numbers are any indication, it seems that there is heightened interest in Louisiana's 2016 presidential primary.The early voting for the March 5 primary is nearly double the voting in the 2012 presidential primary and almost four times what it was in 2008. According to numbers from the Orleans Parish Registrar of Voters, 6,015 people have cast in-person ballots as of 5:30 p.m. Friday. In 2012, there were 3,322 early votes cast in person and in
  
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• Funeral arrangements set for Rep. Ronnie Edwards

  27-02-2016 16:44
  
  BATON ROUGE – Funeral service arrangements have been set for Louisiana Representative Ronnie Edwards who died Wednesday.The viewing will take place from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on March 4 at the Living Faith Christian Center at 6375 Winbourne Ave. in Baton Rouge. The funeral service will immediately follow at 10 a.m.The internment will take place at the Heavenly Gates Mausoleum, 10633 Veterans Memorial Blvd, in Baton Rouge.Memorial on late Rep. Ronnie Edwards desk in House chamber.
  
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• Man wounded in shooting in movie theater's parking lot

  27-02-2016 15:40
  
  HARVEY - Investigators believe a robbery led to a shooting in the parking lot outside a Jefferson Parish movie theater.WWL-TV reports that one man was wounded in Friday evening's shooting outside the AMC Westbank Palace 16 theater in Harvey.The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office says the shooting victim was taken to a New Orleans hospital. His name and condition weren't immediately released.The sheriff's office says two men were trying to buy drugs from another man in the parking lot when the sus
  
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• Louisiana abortion clinics ask high court help to stay open

  27-02-2016 15:38
  
  WASHINGTON - Abortion clinics in Louisiana want the Supreme Court to allow them to stay open and block a ruling that could leave just one of four clinics providing abortions.The clinics say in an emergency appeal to the high court late Friday that only a clinic in New Orleans would remain open if the state is allowed to enforce a law that requires doctors who provide abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.A federal judge ruled last month that the law is unconstitutional and p
  
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• Abortion returns to Supreme Court altered by Scalia's death

  27-02-2016 15:32
  
  WASHINGTON- The Supreme Court challenge to a Texas law that has dramatically reduced the number of abortion clinics in the state is the justices' most significant case on the hot-button issue in nearly a quarter-century.One of this election-year term's biggest cases is being argued Wednesday before a court that's been altered by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. He was perhaps the most vociferous abortion opponent among the nine justices.The Texas law has been replicated across the South and
  
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• Buffett: US economy better than presidential hopefuls say

  27-02-2016 15:31
  
  OMAHA - Investor Warren Buffett says the United States' economy is in better shape than the presidential candidates make it seem.Buffett said Saturday in his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders that any baby born in the country today will live better than their parents, even with the current slow economic growth.He notes that there will still be economic disruption and pain along the way as business evolves, but that the country needs to make sure it has a solid safety net to help p
  
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• Christie, in about-face, endorses former GOP rival Trump

  27-02-2016 15:29
  
  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has a reputation for vengeance.And he delivered it with gusto Friday as he shocked many in the political world by endorsing GOP front-runner Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination.The surprise endorsement was the first for Trump from a sitting governor - and by far his most prominent. It came as Trump rival Marco Rubio appeared on the cusp of a breakthrough following a break-out debate performance. And it marks the second time that Christie has kne
  
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• Clinton scores commanding win in South Carolina

  27-02-2016 15:27
  
  COLUMBIA - Hillary Clinton has won the Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina. She won the overwhelming support of black voters on her way to a commanding victory over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.The win for Clinton is her third in the first four contests of the 2016 campaign. And it gives her a blowout to match Sanders' dominating triumph in New Hampshire.Early results of exit polls taken for The Associated Press and television networks find that Clinton won the support of 8
  
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• Teen killed after deadly crash in E. Feliciana

  27-02-2016 15:19
  
  CLINTON – State Police say a Mississippi teenager was killed after an early morning crash in East Feliciana Parish Saturday.According to Louisiana State Police, 19-year-old Cody Haygood was killed when his pickup truck went airborne and crashed into a tree at the intersection of LA 432 and LA 67 around 5 a.m.Investigators say for some unknown reason Haygood did not stop at the intersection. LSP believe speed may have been a factor in the crash.Haygood was wearing a seatbelt but still s
  
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• BRPD: DNA match leads to arrest in 20-year-old rape case

  27-02-2016 14:58
  
  BATON ROUGE – Police say a Baton Rouge man was charged with one felony count of forcible rape after his DNA matched evidence taken from a rape kit in 1996.On Feb. 9, 1996, Baton Rouge Police say a 17-year-old victim arrived at a local hospital and said she was raped.The victim told BRPD Sex Crimes detectives that she left a group home on Government Street and tried to find someone to give her a ride to a relative’s home in Denham Springs.She said that she was walking
  
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• Louisiana House members question their own staff's work, while looking for more money

  27-02-2016 03:58
  
  "You don't just pull something out of the air do you?" state Rep. Neil Abramson, D-New Orleans, asked a legislative economist.
  
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• Some lawmakers want 2nd special session. Governor, others not so much

  27-02-2016 00:39
  
  But Gov. John Bel Edwards and Senate President John Alario do not seem interested in talking about a second special session when there are still 11 days left in the current one.
  
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