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• Is this how it ends for Donald Trump?

  03-08-2016 23:18
  
  This week feels like the beginning of the end for Trump and his revolution against the political elite.
  
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• State to spend $20-25 million on new Washington Street off-ramp

  03-08-2016 18:03
  
  BATON ROUGE - An announcement was made Thursday regarding the future of the Washington Street exit in Old South Baton Rouge.The governor, joined by city, state and congressional representatives, announced a new off-ramp is to be constructed at the Washington exit to help with the traffic problem.  The current exit is often criticized as one of the reasons eastbound I-10 bottlenecks over the river. Delays happen often and at odd times - during rush hour and random weeke
  
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• Small plane crashes off Florida coast, kills Louisiana man

  03-08-2016 17:45
  
  DESTIN - Authorities say a small plane crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida Panhandle coast, killing a Louisiana man.The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office says on social media that 63-year old Al Habetz's twin engine eight-seat Cessna went down Tuesday night near Destin. Officials don't think anyone else was onboard.Officials began to search the water shortly after receiving reports about the crash. The sheriff's office says the U.S. Coast Guard recovered Habetz's body.Habetz had repor
  
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• Power cut to Plaquemine overnight Thursday for repairs

  03-08-2016 14:15
  
  PLAQUEMINE - The entire city will be without power overnight Thursday.Power will be cut to repair a switch on a substation that feeds all of Plaquemine. The outage is due to repairs being made by Entergy, the city said in a news release, trying to avoid blame for the situation.Power is fed to the city of Plaquemine through Entergy’s substation.Power will be cut on Thursday, August 4, from 11 pm until 5 am on August 5."This is NOT a City of Plaquemine Utilities outage. This is an Enterg
  
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• Police investigate knife attack in Hammond Walmart parking lot

  03-08-2016 14:15
  
  HAMMOND - Police in Hammond are investigating an apparent attack that happened in the parking lot of a Walmart on West Thomas Street on Tuesday night.At around 11 p.m., a woman was getting into her car to leave the store when she was approached by a man who blocked her from closing her car door. He then put a knife to the victim’s chest.A witness who was parked nearby exited his vehicle and confronted the suspect.The suspect fled the area and was last seen running northbound toward Hig
  
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• Two hurt when car crashed through store Wednesday

  03-08-2016 14:11
  
  BATON ROUGE - Two people were injured when an SUV crashed into a Family Dollar store after lunch Wednesday.The sheriff's office is handling the investigation into the crash at 13559 Old Hammond Highway.  WBRZ reporter Brett Buffington reported in a Facebook video report from the scene, at least one person was taken to the hospital by ambulance.  The sheriff's office said two people sustained non-life threatening injuries.  *******************Follow the publish
  
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• Public meeting set on Old Hammond Hwy. widening project

  03-08-2016 14:07
  
  BATON ROUGE – A public meeting will be held on Thursday to present proposed alternatives on widening Old Hammond Highway.The widening will expand the highway from two lanes to four lanes with access management changes along the Old Hammond Highway from Boulevard De Province to Millerville Road.The City of Baton Rouge, Parish of East Baton Rouge Department of Transportation and Drainage, the Green Light Plan, the Federal Highway Administration and the Louisiana Department of Transportat
  
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• Kenny Matassa releases statement; attorney says alleged bribe was really a loan

  03-08-2016 14:04
  
  GONZALES - An attorney for Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa said his client will not resign.Matassa retained Lance Unglesby Tuesday following reports about allegations Matassa bribed someone to not run in a Gonzales City Council election. Monday, WBRZ.com was first to report the Ascension Parish District Attorney said he was asking for an investigation into recordings that surfaced Monday morning on by the Pelican Post, an online news site. Political opponents of Matassa claim the audio
  
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• Baton Rouge men arrested in Rapides Parish fake pee bust

  03-08-2016 13:51
  
  RAPIDES PARISH - A traffic stop on I-49 in Rapides Parish led to the rest of a pair of Baton Rouge men accused of possessing fake pee, according to sheriff’s deputies.39-year-old Bassam Nafel and 59-year-old Fernando Olivas were each booked with 200 counts of possession of synthetic urine and 40 counts of drug paraphernalia.Sheriff’s deputies made the traffic stop after they reported seeing a panel van making lane changes without properly signaling. Neither Nafel or Olivas ha
  
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• Remains found at Grand Canyon believed to be La. woman

  03-08-2016 13:44
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The remains of a woman, believed to be from Louisiana, has been found at the Grand Canyon.The National Park Service believe that the body belongs to 22-year-old Diana Zacarias of Natchitoches. Zacarias was reported missing on Apr. 3 by her family members. She took a shuttle to the South Rim and was dropped off at the Maswick Lodge on Apr. 2.The remains have been transferred to the Coconino County Medical Examiner for a positive identification. The National Park Servi
  
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• LSU fans will enjoy bacon-wrapped spud at Lambeau

  03-08-2016 13:13
  
  GREEN BAY - LSU fans will need to bring an appetite for more than just badger when the Tigers take over Lambeau Field the first weekend of September.Stadium executives revealed they'll serve a massive bacon-wrapped baked potato during Packers games this season. The potato - called the "The Pigskin" - will be ready for the Packers' first preseason game on August 12th. When contacted by WBRZ Wednesday, stadium officials said The Pigskin will be on sale for LSU's game on September 3.ESPN reported e
  
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• La. NAACP calls for government reforms, police residency requirements

  03-08-2016 13:13
  
  BATON ROUGE - The NAACP has released a list of recommendations for U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch in order to address police relations with the Baton Rouge community.The recommendations come after recent officer-involved gun violence caused a rift among residents, sparking protests and a shooting that left three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers dead and another three injured.The NAACP is calling for the creation of the Southern University Law Center Clinical Education Reentry Program. T
  
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• BRAF recruits leader for new crisis intervention center

  03-08-2016 13:13
  
  BATON ROUGE – The Baton Rouge Area Foundation has recruited a new leader to organize and establish a crisis intervention center in partnership with East Baton Rouge Parish leaders.Rob Reardon is the first executive director of The Bridge Center, a non-profit organization created by BRAF to assist those with mental illness and substance abuse problems. Reardon has nearly three decades of experience and previously worked with the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office."We picked Rob because o
  
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• Trump taunts GOP, refusing to back Ryan, McCain

  03-08-2016 12:52
  
  WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is openly taunting the leaders of his own party by refusing to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Sen. John McCain of Arizona in their GOP primaries.And so far, McCain, Ryan and other Republicans who've reluctantly declared that they plan to back Trump for president appear to be sticking with him.Trump's stunning slap at two of the nation's most prominent Republicans dramatically escalated GOP turmoil barely a week after a convention intended to promote pa
  
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• 'That's our Nick': Injured deputy's father tells chilling tale of son's service

  03-08-2016 12:37
  
  BATON ROUGE - People across the world are likely getting goose bumps while reading the latest Facebook post from the message of injured East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's deputy Nick Tullier.Tullier is on life support in the hospital after being shot three times in a deadly ambush on Airline Highway in July. Tullier was running the gunman's license plate when he was shot. Three officers died - sheriff's deputy Brad Garafola and Baton Rouge Police officers Matthew Gerald and Montrell Jackson. Stor
  
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• Man dies after rear-ending 18-wheeler in Iberville Parish

  03-08-2016 12:34
  
  RAMAH – A man from Mandeville is dead after he rear-ended an 18-wheeler on I-10 in Iberville Parish.On Tuesday around 10 p.m. Louisiana State Police Troop A responded to a two-vehicle crash on I-10 westbound, east of Whiskey Bay that took the life of 50-year-old Marty Wyatt of Mandeville.The initial investigation revealed that Wyatt was traveling westbound on the interstate in a Toyota Tundra. At the same time, 33-year-old Alahundro Buckley of Picayune, Mississippi was traveling westbo
  
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• Donations buy hundreds of ballistic vests for Louisiana officers

  03-08-2016 12:19
  
  DENHAM SPRINGS - Law enforcement officers in the Baton Rouge area will soon be wearing new equipment, thanks to donations from the community.Hundreds of officers and deputies will be getting new vests with a ballistic steel core.Brandon Cavin, owner of Bayou Gunslingers has been buys helping to raise money to buy the armor for officers and says the response has been amazing."We're getting ready to make another order next week," he said.Thousands of dollars have been donated, mostly by private&am
  
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• Domestic disturbance ends in arrest after grilled cheese 'too cheesy'

  03-08-2016 12:16
  
  CLARKE COUNTY, Ga. - A man was arrested by police in Georgia after officers said he became violent when his wife after she allegedly made him a grilled cheese sandwich with one slice of cheese too many.Officers said 55-year-old James DePaola was booked on charges of obstruction of a 911 call and criminal trespass/damage to property after his 12-year-old daughter contacted police.A domestic disturbance had unfolded at the DePaola residence with the man screaming in his wife’s face after
  
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• Dallas man dead in a single vehicle crash in Port Allen

  03-08-2016 08:33
  
  PORT ALLEN - Louisiana  State Police is investigating a single vehicle crash that left a Dallas man dead in West Baton Rouge Parish.Troopers responded to the scene on LA 1 underneath the Huey P. Long Bridge. Cotis Woods III, 25, went off the road, and his vehicle struck on of the bridge supports. Woods was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash and suffered fatal injuries. It is unknown if impairment was a factor in the crash, but a toxicology sample was taken to the C
  
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• Police fatally shoot Florida man during domestic call

  03-08-2016 08:13
  
  PALM BAY, Fla. - Police fatally shot a man during a domestic situation at his home in central Florida.Palm Bay police Lt. Mike Bandish tells Florida Today (http://on.flatoday.com/2aNn7eT ) that a woman told 911 dispatchers Tuesday night that her husband was cutting himself and threatening to shoot her.Bandish says the woman barricaded herself in a bathroom while police were on their way to the home in Palm Bay, which is near Melbourne on Florida's Atlantic coast. She screamed into the phone that
  
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• Sheriff: Suspect in deputy death getting recommended testing

  03-08-2016 08:10
  
  HAHNVILLE - The sheriff in Louisiana's St. Charles Parish says the suspect in the June shooting death of a New Orleans-area law enforcement officer has received much of the medical testing requested by defense attorneys.Nineteen-year-old Jerman Neveaux was arrested after the death of Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Deputy David Michel. A video shows Neveaux being struck several times during the arrest and a later photo showed him with facial injuries.Neveaux is being held in St. Charles Parish. The N
  
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