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• The Latest on the 88th annual Academy Awards

  28-02-2016 20:23
  
  LOS ANGELES - Alicia Vikander is the winner of the best supporting actress Academy Award for her portrayal of the wife of an artist who realizes he is transgender.Vikander is a first-time nominee for her role in "The Danish Girl" opposite actor Eddie Redmayne. Redmayne is nominated for the best actor award, which will be announced later Sunday.The actress thanked Redmayne, calling him the best acting partner.The writers of "Spotlight" have won the best original screenplay Academy Award.
  
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• In an upset, 'Spotlight' wins best picture at Oscars

  28-02-2016 20:23
  
  LOS ANGELES - In an underdog win for a movie about an underdog profession, the newspaper drama "Spotlight" took best picture at the 88th Academy Awards.Tom McCarthy's film about the Boston Globe's investigative reporting on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests won over the favored frontier epic "The Revenant." The well-crafted procedural, led by a strong ensemble cast, had lagged in the lead-up to the Oscars, losing ground to the flashier filmmaking of Alejandro Inarritu's film.But "Spotlight"
  
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• Chris Rock tackles diversity in Oscar monologue

  28-02-2016 19:56
  
  LOS ANGELES - Academy Awards host Chris Rock hardly shied away from the topic of diversity in his opening monologue, diving right in by calling the Oscars the "white people's choice awards" and noting the number of black faces shown in the opening montage of film clips.The second-time Oscar host said in his monologue that if hosts were nominated like people in the acting categories, people would be watching Neil Patrick Harris instead.He talked about the pressure put on him not to host
  
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• Trump gets endorsement of Alabama Senator

  28-02-2016 17:00
  
  WASHINGTON - Republican Donald Trump has picked up the endorsement of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions.At a rally with Trump in Huntsville, Alabama, Sessions says he told Trump: "This isn't a campaign. This is a movement."The GOP senator says "nobody's perfect," but that "at this time in American history, we need to make America great again." He was repeating a Trump slogan.Sessions had appeared with Trump last August at a rally in Mobile, Alabama.Permalink| Comments
  
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• MSNBC, Melissa Harris-Perry officially part ways, CNN reports

  28-02-2016 16:49
  
  MSNBC is officially "parting ways" with talk show host Melissa Harris-Perry
  
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• La. senators move ahead with 1-cent state sales tax hike

  28-02-2016 16:08
  
  BATON ROUGE - Senators have started culling through cut and tax proposals backed by the House to rebalance this year's budget.The Senate's tax committee on Sunday advanced two measures that would generate sizable cash for this year's budget: a 1-cent increase in the state sales tax and a change in the payment schedule for businesses to turn over the sales taxes they collect.Before passing the sales tax hike to the full Senate, senators changed the expiration date from the 18 months sought by the
  
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• Stabbing at Ku Klux Klan rally in California: 'All hell broke loose'

  28-02-2016 16:05
  
  The Klansmen were quickly surrounded Saturday afternoon by the counter-protesters
  
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• African-American voters see court fight as affront to Obama

  28-02-2016 15:02
  
  PHILADELPHIA - African-American voters see the Republican opposition to President Barack Obama filling the Supreme Court vacancy as the latest affront to the first black president.Obama isn't on the ballot this fall, but plenty of Republicans are. The Supreme Court standoff could galvanize black voters - a crucial component of the Democratic base.In Pennsylvania, that could make it tough for GOP Sen. Pat Toomey, who's running for a second term.Toomey's Democratic opponents have already seized on
  
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• With big win, Clinton heads to Super Tuesday with momentum

  28-02-2016 15:00
  
  COLUMBIA - Hillary Clinton has resoundingly reclaimed her standing as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination with a lopsided victory in South Carolina.And it's a win over Bernie Sanders that doubles as a strong send off toward Super Tuesday.For Sanders, the roughly 50-point defeat on Saturday crystalizes his weakness with black voters - a crucial segment of the Democratic electorate.If he loses blacks by similar margins in the Southern states that vote Tuesday, Clinton would
  
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• Two motorcyclists dead after separate crashes this weekend

  28-02-2016 14:43
  
  BATON ROUGE – State Police say two people are dead after two separate motorcycle crashes that happened just three hours apart Saturday afternoon.According to Louisiana State Police, the first crash happened in West Baton Rouge Parish around 2:30 p.m. and the second crash happened in St. Martin Parish at 5 p.m.Troopers say 30-year-old Lauren Brocato failed to negotiate a left hand curve on LA. 1, ran off the right side of the road and struck a support column for the Old Mississippi Rive
  
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• VOTE: Top 10 movies shot in La. snubbed by the Oscars

  28-02-2016 13:56
  
  LOS ANGELES - Hollywood is bracing for an Academy Awards that more than any in recent memory, has the feel of a high-stakes showdown.After a second straight year of all-white acting nominees prompted industry-wide scrutiny, viewers and stars alike are hanging on the opening words of host Chris Rock. The Dolby Theatre ceremony, which begins at 7:30 p.m. on WBRZ Channel 2, stands at the center of a swirling storm over diversity in the movies and at the Oscars. Protests are planned near the red car
  
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• Leonardo DiCaprio wins best actor Oscar

  28-02-2016 12:26
  
  LOS ANGELES - Leonardo DiCaprio finally has an Oscar after winning the best actor Academy Award for his performance in the survival epic "The Revenant."DiCaprio has been nominated five times for acting Oscars, dating back to 1993's "What's Eating Gilbert Grape." Acting's highest honor has eluded him despite years of strong performances in films such as "The Aviator," and "The Wolf of Wall Street."He played fur trapper Hugh Glass in director Alejandro Inarritu's "The Revenant," which involved the
  
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• Oscars give a boost to Girl Scout cookies

  28-02-2016 11:33
  
  LOS ANGELES - Chris Rock and his daughter's Girl Scout troop weren't just selling cookies for laughs inside the Dolby Theatre.After appearing during the Oscar broadcast, the girls came back during commercial breaks to hawk more treats to hungry celebs.They quickly found customers in Steven Spielberg and Benicio del Toro. Christian Bale picked up a box, too, after asking his wife to loan him the cash.As soon as Henry Cavil scored his box of Thin Mints the "Man of Steel" star ripped it open and du
  
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• Man accused of Prescott Drive shooting turns himself in

  28-02-2016 11:29
  
  BATON ROUGE – Deputies say the man suspected of shooting a woman on Prescott Drive turned himself into investigators Sunday afternoon.East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call of a shooting on Prescott Drive Saturday night. At the scene, deputies found a man standing in the doorway of the home on his cell phone and a female victim on the floor bleeding from the head. EMS at the scene confirmed that the victim was dead.The man told deputies that he had gone to th
  
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• Leonard Fournette named LSWA Headliner of the Year

  28-02-2016 06:00
  
  Record-setting season, Heisman Trophy run spur LSU sophomore.
  
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