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• Tornado warning for Baton Rouge, Livingston Parish until 2:15 p.m Saturday

  30-04-2016 21:02
  
  The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for northern Livingston and south central Baton Rouge parishes until 2:15 p.m. At 1:44 p.m., a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located over Denham Springs, moving east at 30 mph....
  
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• GOP race shifts California's political fault lines

  30-04-2016 20:21
  
  BURLINGAME, Calif. - The prospect of Donald Trump clinching the nomination in California has scrambled political fault lines among Republicans in the Golden State and made the June 7 primary difficult to predict.The state's GOP presidential primaries are typically low-profile affairs, occurring after the party nomination has been clinched. And California Republicans have long been riven between Republicans centrists and those farther to the right.But 2016 is no typical campaign year. Trump's pot
  
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• Weather cancels Saturday's final Jazz Fest

  30-04-2016 15:35
  
  NEW ORLEANS - Saturday's final acts at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival have been cancelled.A strong line of thunderstorms, dumping heavy rain hit the festival grounds about 3:30 p.m. and continued. Festival organizers cancelled the remaining performances at about 4:30 p.m., citing the severe weather.Few people remained in front of the stages as the rain poured. At the festival's largest stage, Stevie Wonder came out to tell the crowd the news and spontaneously sang Prince's hit, "Purp
  
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• Parts of Florida Blvd closed due to low hanging power line

  30-04-2016 15:29
  
  WALKER – Part of Florida Boulevard in Walker was closed Saturday afternoon due to a low hanging power line.At 3:15 p.m., Traffic officials announced that both directions of US 190 were closed at Corbin Avenue. Eastbound traffic was diverted at LA 447 and westbound traffic was diverted at LA 1029.DOTD officials said congestion from the detour is minimal.This story will be updated as more information becomes available.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Secretary of State heads to Switzerland for talks on Syria

  30-04-2016 15:06
  
  WASHINGTON - Secretary of State John Kerry is heading to Switzerland this weekend for urgent talks on Syria. His trip comes amid escalating violations of a fragile truce around the city of Aleppo.The State Department says Kerry would leave Sunday for Geneva, where he would hold meetings the following day with the U.N. envoy for Syria as well as the foreign ministers of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Kerry will be reviewing efforts to reaffirm the truce nationwide and broaden the delivery of humanitari
  
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• Nissan recalls nearly 4 million cars with air bag problems

  30-04-2016 15:04
  
  NEW YORK - Nearly 4 million Nissan cars are being recalled due to major safety problems where passenger air bags or seat belts could fail in a crash.Nissan North America, Inc. says the first problem is with a sensor that detects if the front passenger seat is occupied. The issue, with 3.2 million cars, can have the computer incorrectly think that an adult is a child or classify the seat as empty, turning off the air bag.A number of models are affected including the Maxima, Altima, LEAF, Sentra,
  
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• President Barack Obama's last chance to zing Washington

  30-04-2016 15:01
  
  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will get one more chance on Saturday to poke fun at fellow politicians, the press and himself as he attends his final White House Correspondents' Dinner.The dinner comes amid a fierce presidential campaign that should provide Obama and this year's entertainer, Larry Wilmore, plenty of material.The Republican front-runner, Donald Trump, a regular in recent years, isn't expected to attend, though several Hollywood stars, athletes and government officials are.Oba
  
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• Supreme Court trying to find its way after Scalia

  30-04-2016 14:11
  
  WASHINGTON - Two months, 31 arguments and 18 decisions since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, is the Supreme Court hopelessly deadlocked or coping as a party of eight?The answer varies with the issue.But arguments last week in the corruption case against a former Virginia governor show that there are high-profile cases on which justices from the left and the right agree more often than they don't.There's also some indication that the court is trying to avoid division in an era of stark polit
  
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• Man booked in death of toddler in Jefferson Parish

  30-04-2016 14:01
  
  MARRERO - A Jefferson Parish man has been booked on a second-degree murder charge after his girlfriend's 2-year-old son died of head injuries.Sheriff Newell Normand says in a news release that 27-year-old Seth Redell told investigators he was caring for his girlfriend's toddler while she was out of town.Officers received a call about an unresponsive child April 24 at a home in Marrero, and 2 year-old Hayden Umbenhower was taken to University Hospital. He underwent emergency surgery for head inju
  
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• Family, friends remember John Mahaffey

  30-04-2016 12:55
  
  BATON ROUGE – For twenty years, John Mahaffey was the face of WBRZ News. That million-dollar smile, iconic voice, often mocked but never duplicated. Remembered as the duke by his colleagues and remembered as dad by his loving daughters.“I was so lucky to have him as my father. Life’s flowers bud. The bloom and they wilt, and life goes on. I miss that great man, my daddy,” Mahaffey’s daughter Merilee said.“He loved it when people came up
  
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• Deion Jones 'a guy we were needing here,' Falcons GM says

  30-04-2016 04:05
  
  Falcons needed his speed and coverage ability.
  
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