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• Former Metro councilmember Buddy Wilson has died

  21-05-2016 20:46
  
  BATON ROUGE – Former Metro Councilmember and Constable Richard “Buddy” Wilson died Friday at the age of 78.Wilson served six years on the East Baton Rouge City Council. He was first sworn in as District 6 Metro Councilman in Jan. 1989 and was elected to his second term in 1993. Wilson was elected to City Constable in 1995.Wilson is the father of EBRP Metro council member Scott Wilson and EBRP Assessor Brian Wilson.Visitation is set for Monday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. a
  
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• Police chase ends on roof of LSU campus bookstore

  21-05-2016 20:12
  
  BATON ROUGE – LSU Police say a man was arrested Saturday morning after he led police on a foot chase through campus which ended on the roof of the campus bookstore.According to court documents, an LSUPD officer saw two men trying to cut a cable lock on a bike rack at LSU’s East Campus Apartments around 12:54 a.m. Saturday morning.Police say the two men fled on foot, dropping two bikes they had already removed from the rack. Officers searched the area and saw 26-year-old Samue
  
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• Man leads LSU police on chase on roof of campus bookstore

  21-05-2016 20:12
  
  BATON ROUGE – LSU Police say a man was arrested Saturday morning after he led police on a foot chase through campus which ended on the roof of the campus bookstore.According to court documents, an LSUPD officer saw two men trying to cut a cable lock on a bike rack at LSU’s East Campus Apartments around 12:54 a.m. Saturday morning.Police say the two men fled on foot, dropping two bikes they had already removed from the rack. Officers searched the area and saw 26-year-old Samue
  
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• Muggings at apartment complex near Southern leads to arrest, breaks in cases

  21-05-2016 19:56
  
  BATON ROUGE - Baton Rouge Police arrested a man they said is responsible for a series of violent robberies.Ofari Berry was booked into jail Saturday on seven charges ranging from theft and armed robbery to resisting arrest. Berry was apprehended after an armed robbery and attempted armed robbery on Scenic Highway Saturday morning, police wrote in jail booking documents obtained by WBRZ.Most recently, detectives said Berry and an accomplice robbed a security guard at The Palisades at Jaguar City.
  
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• Two arrested in Round Oak murder; Victim gave information before he died

  21-05-2016 19:29
  
  BATON ROUGE - Shocking, new information about the shooting death of a 20-year-old in an upscale area of Baton Rouge came to light Saturday with the arrest of one of two suspects in the case.Taylor Besson, 20, of Thibodeaux, was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish jail Saturday morning on principal to murder and robbery charges. Deputies wrote in arrest documents, Besson confessed to being with Jesse Trejos when he was shot and killed Wednesday night on Kindletree Drive, off Jefferson Highway
  
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• Rally planned at school board office over graduation ban

  21-05-2016 17:12
  
  AMITE - The Tangipahoa Parish NAACP said it will participate in a rally Monday with friends and relatives of a high school valedictorian who was not allowed to walk across the stage last week because he had facial hair.WBRZ and WBRZ.com first reported about Andrew Jones Thursday. The night before, Jones said Amite High School officials made him sit in the audience instead of participate in ceremonies because he had not shaved."They were just straight… you either got to shave or you ai
  
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• 5-year-old playing with handgun shoots herself

  21-05-2016 15:14
  
  LaPLACE – Deputies in St. John the Baptist Parish say a 5-year-old girl is dead after she shot herself with a handgun Saturday morning.Around 9:44 a.m. Saturday, deputies responded to a home on Country Club Drive in LaPlace for a medical emergency. The girl’s father told investigators that 5-year-old Haley Moore shot herself while playing with the handgun.EMS transported the girl to a local hospital where she later died. Deputies say the incident is still under investigation.
  
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• 5-year-old killed after playing with handgun

  21-05-2016 15:14
  
  LaPLACE – Deputies in St. John the Baptist Parish say a 5-year-old girl is dead after she shot herself with a handgun Saturday morning.Around 9:44 a.m. Saturday, deputies responded to a home on Country Club Drive in LaPlace for a medical emergency. The girl’s father told investigators that 5-year-old Haley Moore shot herself while playing with the handgun.EMS transported the girl to a local hospital where she later died. Deputies say the incident is still under investigation.
  
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• Facebook page publishes '18 rules for driving in Baton Rouge'

  21-05-2016 14:50
  
  BATON ROUGE – A Facebook page decided to poke fun at Baton Rouge’s favorite pastime: sitting in traffic.The page, “Southern Sweet, Louisiana Loud and Proud,” posted a picture Saturday morning with the official ‘rules for driving in Baton Rouge.’1. First you must learn to pronounce the city name. It is ‘Batt'n Roodge.’2. Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. Baton Rouge has its own version of traffic rules..
  
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• Oklahoma governor vetoes bill criminalizing abortion

  21-05-2016 13:55
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma Republican Gov. Mary Fallin has vetoed legislation that would have effectively outlawed abortion in the state by making it a felony for doctors to perform the procedure.Fallin opposes abortion but said the measure was vague and would not withstand a legal challenge.The bill's sponsor, Republican Sen. Nathan Dahm, said Friday that he was considering whether to try to override the governor's veto.The bill would have made it a felony punishable by up to three years in priso
  
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• In swing-state suburbs, white women are skeptical of Trump

  21-05-2016 13:51
  
  WESTERVILLE, Ohio - For Donald Trump to win the White House, he'll need the votes of women like lifelong Republican Wendy Emery.Yet the 52-year-old business owner from the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, is struggling with the notion that Trump is her party's presumptive presidential nominee, and she can't commit to voting for him.Emery's negative impression of Trump is shared by most of the dozens of white, suburban women from politically important states who were interviewed by The Associated Press
  
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• Trying to get jump on Zika preparations with money in limbo

  21-05-2016 13:48
  
  WASHINGTON - Beg, borrow and steal: Zika preparation involves a bit of all three as federal, state and local health officials try to get a jump on the mosquito-borne virus while Congress haggles over how much money they really need.With federal financing in limbo, health officials are shifting resources and setting priorities - and not just where mosquitoes have arrived. All but six states so far have seen travel-associated cases of Zika.Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health say
  
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• Police: drunk driver struck, killed pedestrian early Saturday

  21-05-2016 13:43
  
  BATON ROUGE – Police arrested a Baton Rouge man after they say he was driving drunk, struck and killed a pedestrian Saturday morning on Jefferson Highway.According to Baton Rouge Police, 36-year-old William Warren had stopped to help direct traffic around a crash on Jefferson Highway around 2:20 a.m. Saturday.Police say as Warren was acting as a good Samaritan, 41-year-old Gregory Hamilton struck Warren with his vehicle. Warren died at the scene.Hamilton was booked in the East Baton Ro
  
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• Do you meet the current TOPS requirements?

  21-05-2016 03:20
  
  he cutoff ACT score for receiving the scholarship would be a 22 -- instead of a 26 -- thanks to new funding.
  
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• Lawmakers' constituents say there's more to Kenny Havard than the stripper amendment

  21-05-2016 02:10
  
  There is more to state Rep. Kenny Havard than the joke amendment that brought him national attention, his constituents and fellow legislators say.
  
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• John Bel Edwards' legislative priorities running into problems

  21-05-2016 01:18
  
  The governor's top legislative priorities -- a minimum wage hike and equal pay for women -- aren't going anywhere in the Legislature.
  
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• 100 mph winds hit Napoleonville, 70 mph winds hit B.R. area Thursday

  21-05-2016 00:42
  
  Unoccupied mobile home destroyed in Napoleonville; homes, businesses damaged in Shenandoah neighborhood of East Baton Rouge Parish.
  
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