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• Ryan says Muslims in military should be honored

  31-07-2016 20:08
  
  WASHINGTON - House Speaker Paul Ryan says Muslim Americans who serve in the U.S. military should be honored - "period" - and that he would reject any proposal that would require a religious test for entry into the U.S.The House speaker made the comments in a written statement issued Sunday. He also praised a U.S. Army captain, Humayun Khan, who was killed in a suicide bombing in Iraq in 2004.The captain's parents have come under criticism from GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump for s
  
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• Sheriff: Mother, 26, kills 5-year-old daughter, then self

  31-07-2016 17:41
  
  THIBODAUX - The Lafourche Parish sheriff says a 26-year-old Thibodaux woman apparently killed her 5-year-old daughter, then herself.Sheriff Craig Webre identifies them as Nakesha Carrere and her daughter, Abigail Creamer.He says in a news release that the child's father found their bodies when he arrived at the home shortly before noon Sunday.Webre says detectives found a detailed letter which they believe Carerre had written, and are confident that the deaths were a murder-suicide.“Th
  
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• Man charged with attempted murder of BRPD officer

  31-07-2016 16:38
  
  BATON ROUGE – A Baton Rouge man was charged with attempted murder of a police officer after police say he pointed a gun at officers while trying to flee a crime scene.The incident happened on the 10000 block of Avenue L Street around 1:30 a.m. Sunday. Police say Arquelle Jean-Baptiste climbed onto his ex-girlfriend’s apartment balcony armed with a handgun and kicked open her apartment door.Police arrived at the scene and saw Jean-Baptiste hiding behind a building. Arrest reco
  
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• Debate commission: Democrats didn't rig debate schedule

  31-07-2016 14:41
  
  WASHINGTON - The NFL and the Commission on Presidential Debates are rejecting Republican Donald Trump's claim that Democrats rigged the debate schedule so that two of the three debates would occur during football games.In a statement released Sunday, the commission said it started working more than 18 months ago to identify all religious and federal holidays as well as baseball and football games and other major events. The commission said it was "impossible" to avoid all sporting events.The non
  
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• A look at how Texas' guns on campus law will work

  31-07-2016 14:32
  
  AUSTIN, Texas - Texas will allow concealed handgun license holders to carry their weapons into public university buildings, classrooms and dorms starting Monday, which is also the 50th anniversary of the mass shooting at the University of Texas' landmark clock tower.The campus-carry law pushed by Gov. Greg Abbott and the Republican legislative majority will make Texas one of a handful of states that guarantee the right to carry concealed handguns on campus.Generally speaking, the law allows guns
  
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• Flour recall prompts new warning: Don't eat dough or batter

  31-07-2016 14:30
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa - Health officials are puzzled about how the most basic baking ingredient - flour - became contaminated with bacteria normally found in animal feces.The tainted flour has sickened 46 people in 21 states and prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to warn cooks to treat it like other foods that could cross-contaminate kitchen surfaces.Plus, the Food and Drug Administration is cautioning consumers to never taste raw cookie dough or cake batter.Testing points to flo
  
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• Trump says US should accept Russia in Crimea

  31-07-2016 14:28
  
  WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is suggesting the U.S. accept Russia's annexation of Crimea if it would lead to better relations with Moscow and stronger cooperation in fighting Islamic State militants.In an interview Sunday on ABC's "This Week," Trump suggested that the people of Crimea would rather be part of Russia. That runs counter to the Obama administration, which imposed economic sanctions against Russia for annexing the territory in Ukraine two years
  
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• Black Lives supporters seek backing from other minorities

  31-07-2016 14:25
  
  NEW YORK - Some Asian and Latino supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement are reaching out to others in their communities to convince them that the movement is their fight too.They created a crowd-sourced letter that's been translated into numerous languages in the wake of the most recent deaths of black people at the hands of police. The letter aims to enlist Asians, Hispanics and others in the movement.Although the movement has always had supporters of all races, the letter represents a n
  
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• Trump again criticizes fallen veteran's father

  31-07-2016 14:21
  
  YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Donald Trump sparked bipartisan backlash after the Republican attacked the bereaved parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who spoke at the Democratic convention last week.Critics from both parties on Saturday questioned whether Trump had the empathy and understanding to be president, particularly after he questioned why mourning mother Ghazala Khan stayed silent during her husband's Thursday night address."He was kind of trying to turn that into some kind of ridicule," Democra
  
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• $487 million Powerball ticket bought at New Hampshire small-town grocery

  31-07-2016 14:18
  
  DES MOINES - Folks in New Hampshire are eager to learn who among them holds the winning ticket to a $487 million Powerball jackpot.New Hampshire lottery officials tell television station WMUR someone bought the winning ticket at the local Hannaford supermarket in Raymond, a southern New Hampshire town of about 10,000.The winning numbers were 11-17-21-23-32, with a Powerball of 5.The lump sum option is worth $330.6 million.By midday Sunday, the jackpot winner in Saturday night's drawing had not c
  
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• Louisiana boy, 5, man, 44, die in separate boating accidents

  31-07-2016 14:06
  
  NEW ORLEANS - The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says a 5-year-old boy and a 44-year-old man have died in separate boating accidents.Spokesman Adam Einck says the boy, Ethan Hancock of Houma, drowned under a towboat in the Intracoastal Waterway near Bourg, about 54 miles southwest of New Orleans.He says Robert Sims of Metairie died when his head hit a piling near Grand Isle.Einck says Hancock's father's 14-foot boat ran out of gas and he was paddling to shore when the tugboat app
  
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• Body of a 5 year old recovered in Intercoastal Waterway

  31-07-2016 14:06
  
  NEW ORLEANS – LaFourche Parish Sheriff’s Office recovered a body matching the description of a missing five-year-old boy at mile marker 49 of the Intercoastal waterway Sunday morning.The U.S. Coast Guard received a call at 11:18 p.m., Saturday, about a five-year-old boy missing in the water.  The child reportedly was wearing a life jacket.The Coast Guard, Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries, LaFourche and Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Departments saturated a two nautical
  
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• Maringouin residents shocked by abrupt utility bill increase

  31-07-2016 12:48
  
  MARINGOUIN - Sam Watson and his neighbors in Maringouin are talking about the shock they got when they opened this month's utility bill."Our bills have increased more than at 100 percent," Watson said. "I think all the citizens' bills have increased to that magnitude."Tyese Givens says for as long as she can remember, her bill for gas, water and sewer has been $65 a month. But this month it was almost $120. "We are a family on mixed income," Givens said. "We have small children and we c
  
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