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• Mayor Holden makes first public appearance at prayer service since Alton Sterling shooting

  12-07-2016 19:44
  
  BATON ROUGE – Mayor Kip Holden made his first public appearance at a prayer service at St. Aloysius Church one week after the shooting death of Alton Sterling on July 5.Holden described the service as “very emotional” and explained his standpoint on Sterling’s death as well as the recent police shootings in Dallas.“There are too many divisions and we have to pull together because we are all worshiping and praising the same God,” Holden
  
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• People gather outside Triple S convenience store one week after Alton Sterling shooting

  12-07-2016 19:21
  
  BATON ROUGE - People have been gathering outside of the Triple S convenience store since the shooting death of Alton Sterling.Folks are okay with protesters, however they do not want protest to be loud and late into the night.Charlie King is offering free hair cuts outside of the store during the day. His barber's chair is set in the same spot where Sterling sold CD’s.Alton Sterling was a real good friend of mind. I used to cut his hair too so, I just had to give back,” King
  
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• Together Baton Rouge wants political change after Alton Sterling shooting

  12-07-2016 19:11
  
  BATON ROUGE- A prominent grass-roots organization wants law enforcement and economic reforms in response to the Alton Sterling shooting. Together Baton Rouge held a lunch in Mid-City Tuesday with over 300 faith and civic leaders in attendance."We have a faulty foundation, we have problematic foundation, we have an outdated foundation, and we will not solve our problems unless we change our foundation," said a pastor at the event.After meeting in small groups, leaders compiled the fears
  
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• Alton Sterling's 15-year-old to speak Wednesday morning

  12-07-2016 16:44
  
  BATON ROUGE - Alton Sterling’s 15-year-old son, Cameron Sterling, will speak out for the first time tomorrow since his father was killed during an officer-involved shooting last week.The speaking engagement is scheduled for 8:30 a.m., and will take place in front of the Triple S convenience store on North Foster Drive where an altercation between the boy's father and BRPD officers ended in the man being shot and killed.Cameron is to be accompanied by his mother, Quinyetta McMillon, and
  
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• Alton Sterling's 15-year-old son to speak Wednesday morning

  12-07-2016 16:44
  
  BATON ROUGE - Alton Sterling’s 15-year-old son, Cameron Sterling, will speak out for the first time tomorrow since his father was killed during an officer-involved shooting last week.The speaking engagement is scheduled for 8:30 a.m., and will take place in front of the Triple S convenience store on North Foster Drive where an altercation between the boy's father and BRPD officers ended in the man being shot and killed.Cameron is to be accompanied by his mother, Quinyetta McMillon, and
  
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• Man, grandmother and mom face charges in Tangipahoa Parish murder

  12-07-2016 15:13
  
  HAMMOND - Four people have been arrested and charged with the murder of an 18-year-old in Natalbany in Tangipahoa Parish last month.22-year-old Antoine Schaffer is charged with 1st degree murder and obstruction of justice in the shooting death of Marquise Lightfoot. Lightfoot's body was found in a yard in Natalbany in early June. The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office says Schaffer has been in jail since a couple of days after the shooting for an unrelated home invasion in Hammond. He's now bein
  
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• Woman rescued after nine hours in flipped and flooded SUV

  12-07-2016 14:53
  
  ROBERT - A woman spent the night in water up to her neck after she crashed her SUV in Tangipahoa Parish.First responders said the woman contacted them at around 10:30 p.m. after the wreck happened on Monday night, according to WWL-TV. Her SUV flipped over a bridge railing into a canal along Highway 190 in Robert.Unfortunately for her, the scene wasn’t discovered until 7 a.m. Tuesday when an 18-wheeler driver spotted the wreckage. When the trucker stopped to check out the crash, he foun
  
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• TPSO investigates series of vehicle break-ins near Loranger

  12-07-2016 14:48
  
  LORANGER - Sheriff’s deputies in Tangipahoa Parish asked for the public’s help on Tuesday in identifying the suspects behind multiple vehicle break-ins in the Loranger area.Deputies said the vehicle burglaries happened near Highways  40 and 442 in the early morning hours of July 6.Additional surveillance video revealed that three men armed with handguns were casing the area where the burglaries happened on the morning of the crime.Anyone with information about the br
  
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• Cameras catch waterspout moving across Lake Pontchartrain

  12-07-2016 14:44
  
  NEW ORLEANS - Restrictions are in effect on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge after a waterspout was spotted over the lake.WWL-TV’s cameras captured the waterspout live on their noon news as a heavy line of thunderstorms moved across Pontchartrain.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Obama: US should reject despair after shootings

  12-07-2016 14:36
  
  DALLAS - President Barack Obama says the shootings of five Dallas police officers would appear to have exposed the "the deepest fault line of our democracy" but that Americans must reject such despair.Obama spoke Tuesday at the memorial service for the five, honoring the work of law enforcement officers, saying they answer a call that at any moment, even in the briefest of interactions, may put their life in harm's way.He said fewer people are being mourned at the service because of the brave ac
  
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• Stalled vehicle on I-10 East causes delays for more than an hour

  12-07-2016 14:33
  
  BATON ROUGE - I-10 East has seen delays stretching from the Dalrymple Drive exit across the bridge and into Port Allen thanks to a stalled vehicle.The right lane of I-10 East remained block for more than an hour on Tuesday afternoon as crews worked to move the vehicle.Heavy delays were the end result with traffic stretching from the scene of the breakdown to the LA 1 Port Allen exit.Permalink| Comments
  
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• 5 arrested after shots fired on police in Washington

  12-07-2016 14:29
  
  WASHINGTON - Five people have been arrested in Washington after at least one person opened fire on police, and a police spokesman says there's no indication it was a "planned attack on police."No injuries were reported.The incident early Tuesday follows recent protests over police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota and the fatal shooting of five police officers in Dallas.Police say a system that detects gunshots brought officers to southeast Washington. When officers arrived in mar
  
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• Elected officials urge law enforcement to exercise restraint with protesters

  12-07-2016 14:28
  
  BATON ROUGE – Elected officials are urging local, state and federal law enforcement to exercise restraint when engaging with protestors.
  In a letter, singed by "The Black Elected Officials of Baton Rouge," elected officials state that they stand with those in an outcry for justice in the midst of the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castille and the Dallas police officers.The letter states that officials are proud of citizens' passion to exercise peaceful civil disobedience,
  
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• Zachary teen wanted for murder turns himself in

  12-07-2016 14:18
  
  ZACHARY - Police in Zachary say a teenager wanted on a second degree murder charge has turned himself in to authorities.Police reported on Facebook last week that 18-year-old Antonio D. Thomas was wanted, and that the teen should be considered armed and dangerous. They asked that the public not approach Thomas, but to instead contact Zachary PD.Thomas was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Jail on the above charge. More details are expected soon.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Transportation study group created by governor begins work

  12-07-2016 13:54
  
  BATON ROUGE - Gov. John Bel Edwards told a study group considering ways to tackle Louisiana's more than $12 billion road and bridge work backlog that its work is vitally important to the future of the state.
      
  Edwards spoke to the transportation task force, which he created last month, as it began its work Tuesday. He framed the issue as critical to economic development and quality of life.
      
  The Democratic governor said he expects the
  
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• 3 Kentwood men killed in US 51 crash

  12-07-2016 13:33
  
  FLUKER - Troopers say three people were killed in a crash on US 51 near Fluker at around 5:30 Monday night.28-year-old Kaleb Collette, of Kentwood, was driving a pickup truck southbound on US 51 when he failed to stop his vehicle and crashed into the rear of a broken down tractor trailer driven by 46-year-old David James, of Amite.Collette and his two passengers, 27-year-old Kenneth Parnell and 27-year-old Lee Ross, both also of Kentwood, all were not wearing seat belts and sustained fatal injur
  
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• Starbucks hikes prices on coffee, espresso, tea lattes

  12-07-2016 13:18
  
  SEATTLE - Starbucks says it's increasing prices slightly on brewed coffee, espresso and tea latte beverages.The Seattle-based coffee chain says prices on select sizes of brewed coffee in U.S. company-operated stores are jumping 10 to 20 cents Tuesday, while prices on espresso and tea latte beverages will rise 10 to 30 cents.The company says in a statement that pricing in stores is "continually evaluated on a product-by-product and market-by-market basis in order to balance business needs."The pr
  
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• Blue Bell to release new flavor on Friday

  12-07-2016 13:07
  
  BATON ROUGE – Get your spoons ready. Blue Bell Ice Cream is adding a new flavor to its list.
  On Friday, the company will announce a new flavor to celebrate National Ice Cream month. According to the company, it will even begin stocking stores with the mysterious flavor the same day.
  Blue Bell has teased the new flavor on social media by saying that "This one will have you dancing in the grocery store aisles."Grab your partner here we go. Blue Bell Ice Cream is about to release a brand
  
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• Bernie Sanders endorses Hillary Clinton for president

  12-07-2016 12:36
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton and said that he will do "everything I can to make certain" she wins the 2016 presidential election."Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nominating process and I congratulate her for that," Sanders said, after being interrupted by applause."I have come here to make it as clear as possible as to why I am endorsing Hillary Clinton and why she must become our next president," Sanders said.Today's event marks their first joint general election campai
  
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• Man caught cheating thanks to Pokemon Go

  12-07-2016 12:28
  
  Rising cultural phenomenon Pokémon Go is uniting gamers and non-gamers alike as they get up, get off the couch and sometimes even interact with other human beings.Not so much for Evan Scribner though as the scavenger hunt style game inadvertently led his girlfriend to discover that he was cheating on her.Scribner told the New York Post that after he met up with an ex-girlfriend, he opened up the app and proceeded to catch a Zubat. Zubat is one of the more than 100 virtual “p
  
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• 5 arrested after shots fired at Washington cops

  12-07-2016 12:26
  
  DALLAS - Five people have been arrested in Washington, D.C., after at least one opened fire on police.
      
  But a police spokesman says there's no indication that the early Tuesday incident was a "planned attack on police." No injuries were reported.
      
  It follows recent protests over police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota and the fatal shooting of five police officers in Dallas.
      
  Police say a
  
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• 1 man to be charged with shooting at DC officers; 4 released

  12-07-2016 12:26
  
  WASHINGTON - Washington's police chief says one man will be charged after firing on police officers during a carjacking early Tuesday.
      
  Chief Cathy Lanier said no officers were wounded during the unplanned attack in southeast Washington.
      
  She said the suspect carjacked an SUV with people inside after robbing four others at gunpoint. Then, she said, the man fired on officers from inside the vehicle, and officers returned fire.
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• Man accused in beating death of wife enters not guilty plea

  12-07-2016 12:22
  
  GONZALES - A 38-year-old Louisiana man, who is facing a first-degree murder charge in the beating death of his wife in the backyard of the couple's home in August, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
      
  David Johnson Sr. of Geismar entered the plea Monday before state Judge Thomas Kliebert Jr.
      
  Johnson, along with one of his attorneys, Rusty Messer, and Assistant District Attorney Shawn Bush, met with the judge behind closed d
  
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• Check out issues put damper on Amazon Prime Day sales

  12-07-2016 12:12
  
  On one of its biggest sales days of the year, glitches have marred Amazon’s Prime Day.Some customers are reporting difficulty making purchases because they can’t add items to their cart to check out. Amazon took to Twitter on Tuesday to address the issues angering customers looking for sweet online deals:Some customers are reporting difficulty with checkout. We're working to resolve this issue quickly.— Amazon (@amazon) July 12, 2016Prime Day started in 10 different
  
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• Drivers in Walker end up in accident, ditches while playing Pokemon Go

  12-07-2016 12:03
  
  WALKER - Police are warning people about the dangers of playing Pokémon Go while driving.Pokémon Go has been downloaded millions of times in the U.S. since it's release Wednesday. It requires people to move, augmenting reality to place creatures and other items in real places."If forces you to get up off the couch and either walk or drive to a spot where you can walk," said Walker Police Captain John Sharp.Walker Police say some people play it when they shouldn't and it's c
  
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• Baker City Court to offer amnesty program for citizens with bench warrants

  12-07-2016 09:20
  
  BAKER - Baker City Court will run an amnesty program for individuals with outstanding bench warrants for the last half of this month.Court officials say anyone with an outstanding bench warrant issued before July 15, 2016 will be eligible to have the bench warrant recalled without first paying the normal bench warrant recall fee.The defendant will then be given a new court date and additional time to pay any outstanding fees. While the court notes that the amnesty program does not reduce outstan
  
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• All lanes opened after major wreck causes lane closure of I-12

  12-07-2016 08:13
  
  DENHAM SPRINGS - All lanes are opened on I-12 westbound after a major accident closed the interstate for about an hour. Congestion has reached approximately five miles on I-12 west. According to a spokesperson from Acadian Ambulance, one person has been airlifted to the hospital after being trapped in a vehicle. Two other people have been transported to the hospital. The status of their injuries is unknown at this moment.I12 W remains closed just past Juban. A person trapped in
  
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• Christmas in July? Amazon's 'Prime Day' is back

  12-07-2016 06:44
  
  SEATTLE - Amazon's "Prime Day" has returned for a second year with the online retail giant promising twice as many deals as last year.The company launched the event last July in an effort to promote its $99 annual Prime loyalty program, which offers free two-day shipping and other perks. Some of the big discounts are on large screen TVs and Amazon devices like its Echo, Kindle and Fire TV products.Consumers may be hoping for better deals than last year, when #PrimeDayFail became a trending topic
  
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• Baton Rouge house is damaged during protest, owner blames protesters

  12-07-2016 02:50
  
  He's ok with the police though.
  
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• Baton Rouge police tactics in Alton Sterling shooting protests questioned

  12-07-2016 00:16
  
  Both the ACLU and Amnesty International harshly criticized the police response to peaceful protests.
  
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