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• 4 remain hospitalized after Warrior Dash obstacle collapse

  09-10-2016 23:49
  Four people -- including a 10-year-old child -- remained hospitalized Sunday.
  
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• Trump, Clinton shake hands at end of tense debate

  09-10-2016 19:29
  
  ST. LOUIS - The second presidential debate was expected to be tense. And it started to be tense early after Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump refused to shake hands as they entered the debate hall in St. Louis. That's a break from traditional debate decorum.Shortly before the debate began, Trump held a press conference with three women who had accused President Bill Clinton of sexual wrongdoing and Hillary of acting vindictivley toward them. The women were seated with the Trump family in the fron
  
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• Clinton accusers join Trump ahead of debate

  09-10-2016 19:29
  
  WASHINGTON - Juanita Broaddrick, a former Arkansas nursing home administrator, first claimed 17 years ago that Bill Clinton raped her during a meeting in Little Rock in 1978.Broaddrick was one of the women who appeared with Donald Trump ahead of his debate with Hillary Clinton Sunday.Broaddrick sued Bill Clinton in 1999, but the case was dismissed in 2001.A Twitter account that claimed to be that of Broaddrick revived the allegations on Saturday. Clinton has long denied her account.Broa
  
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• La National Guard sends 8 helicopters for Matthew aid

  09-10-2016 19:24
  
  PINEVILLE - The Louisiana National Guard says it has sent four helicopters to Florida and four to South Carolina to help after Hurricane Matthew.Lt. Rebekah Malone says in an email that the eight helicopters have a total of 32 crew members and maintenance crew, and two medics are going to Florida.She says in a news release that each group includes two UH-60 Blackhawks and two UH-72 Lakotas. One left from Hammond and the other from Pineville.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Children, 11 and 7, die in 2 wrecks; neither wore seat belt

  09-10-2016 18:21
  
  RAYNE - Louisiana state police say two children without seat belts have died after being thrown from SUVs that overturned in separate weekend wrecks. They were a 7-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl. Police say charges are pending in both accidents.Master Trooper Brooks David says 11-year-old Matiya Zachary of Rayne died when a 2000 Chevrolet Tahoe ran off Louisiana 98 and overturned late Friday. He says nobody in the Chevrolet Tahoe was wearing a seat belt, but other occupants suffered minor
  
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• AT&T stops Samsung phone exchanges after new fire reports

  09-10-2016 16:10
  
  NEW YORK - A&T will stop exchanging Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones because of reports that some of the replacement phones are catching fire, just as the original phones did before they were recalled last month."We're no longer exchanging new Note 7s at this time, pending further investigation of these reported incidents," A&T said. AT&T, a major seller of the phones, encouraged customers with Note 7 phones to exchange them for other products.Samsung announced a global recall of th
  
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• Trump lashes out at 'self-righteous hypocrites'

  09-10-2016 15:15
  
  WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is lashing out at the growing list of Republicans abandoning his candidacy, predicting that they're the ones who will lose.Trump on Sunday tweeted: "So many self-righteous hypocrites. Watch their poll numbers - and elections - go down!"Trump has also been re-tweeting a series of messages from supporters, including one that lashes out at "GOP traitors!" and says not supporting is voting for "destroying America."Another says "'Republican leadership' should have o
  
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• Court fight over Ohio executions likely to focus on sedative

  09-10-2016 14:46
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio says it's resuming executions in January with a three-drug protocol similar to one it used for several years.The concept is one adopted for decades by many states: the first drug sedates inmates, the second paralyzes them, and the third stops their hearts.The key difference comes with the first drug the state plans to use, midazolam (mih-DAY'-zoh-lam), which has been challenged in court as unreliable.The state argues that a planned dose of 500 milligrams will ensure that in
  
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• 3 juveniles in Albuquerque caught with clown masks, handgun

  09-10-2016 14:39
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Albuquerque police say three people dressed as clowns are in custody after being found with a possible firearm.Police spokesman Simon Drobik says officers were dispatched Sunday to a call about a "clown sighting" near a kids' clothing store.Authorities located three juveniles donning clown masks.Drobik says they were also in possession of what appears to be a handgun.The investigation is ongoing.It's not clear what charges the three could face.The incident comes amid a rash o
  
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• 'Girl on the Train' steamrolls Parker's 'Birth of a Nation'

  09-10-2016 14:16
  
  NEW YORK - Propelled by the popularity of Paula Hawkins' best-seller, the adaptation of "The Girl on the Train" led North American theaters in ticket sales with $24.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Less successful was Nate Parker's Nat Turner biopic "The Birth of a Nation," which opened with a disappointing $7.1 million."The Girl on the Train," a psychological thriller starring Emily Blunt, appealed significantly to female moviegoers, who made up 68 percent of the audience. The f
  
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• Display of rare items marks 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor

  09-10-2016 14:06
  
  NATICK, Mass. - A new exhibition commemorating the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor has opened at a private museum west of Boston.The Museum of World War II's "Why We Still Remember" display chronicles the mood in the U.S. and Japan before and after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack.Museum founder Kenneth Rendell suggests the exhibition's themes, including U.S. complacency to a growing foreign threat, should resonate today.Among the featured artifacts are the distress message sent out from
  
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• Record 1,201 couples renew wedding vows in Kalamazoo

  09-10-2016 13:56
  
  KALAMAZOO, Mich. - A record 1,201 couples have renewed their wedding vows at a ceremony on the campus of Western Michigan University.The Kalamazoo Gazette reports a Guinness World Record official on site certified the record event Saturday. It broke the previous mark of 1,087 couples renewing their vows at Miami University in Ohio in 2009.Couples dressed in Western Michigan gear and even donned veils, white dresses and tuxes to celebrate their marriages. Western Michigan University President Joh
  
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• Kenyans Abel Kirui, Florence Kiplagat win Chicago Marathon

  09-10-2016 13:42
  
  CHICAGO - Abel Kirui of Kenya pulled ahead of defending champion Dickson Chumba for good in the final mile to win the Chicago Marathon on Sunday.Florence Kiplagat of Kenya won her second straight Chicago Marathon women's title.The men's lead alternated between Kirui and Chumba for the last few miles. The 34-year-old Kirui finished the 26.2-mile course in an unofficial time of 2 hours, 11 minutes, 23 seconds. Chumba finished in 2:11:26.The top five finishers were all Kenyans.The 29-year-old Kipla
  
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• New York Governor: Trains side-swiped each other, causing derailment

  09-10-2016 13:37
  
  NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. - New York's governor says a work train and a commuter train "side-swiped" one another, causing a derailment that injured 33 people.Gov. Andrew Cuomo says Sunday it appears a train doing maintenance work somehow violated the clearance space of a Long Island Rail Road train.Both trains were traveling east when they collided just after 9 p.m. Saturday.Metropolitan Transit Authority Chairman Thomas Prendergast says seven employees and 26 customers were injured. He says four peop
  
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• Barge parking lot? Hudson River plan draws ire of residents

  09-10-2016 13:37
  
  KINGSTON, N.Y. - A group of citizens, lawmakers and environmentalists is fighting a proposal to establish more than 40 commercial anchorages at 10 locations along a 70-mile stretch of the Hudson River running north from New York City.Shipping industry officials say they need safe places to anchor, sometimes for days, barges hauling North Dakota crude oil to East Coast refineries and export terminals.But some environmental groups suspect the anchorages will be used to store oil until prices recov
  
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• Gas prices up 4 cents to $2.29 a gallon

  09-10-2016 13:22
  
  CAMARILLO, Calif. - The average price of gasoline in the U.S. has risen four cents over the past two weeks to $2.29 a gallon for regular grade.Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday that retailers and refiners have upped their prices in response to a rise in the cost of crude oil.Gas prices are up 13 cents over nine weeks.The Lundberg Survey found the average price of midgrade gasoline was $2.56 a gallon while premium was $2.78.The highest average price for regular gas in the contiguous U.
  
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• Police say 5 people killed by wrong-way driver in Vermont

  09-10-2016 13:17
  
  WILLISTON, Vt. - Vermont State Police say a man driving the wrong way on an interstate highway crashed into a car, killing five people. Minutes later in the same area, a man stole a police cruiser and struck seven vehicles, injuring several people while driving the wrong way.It was unclear if the same person was responsible for all of the crashes. But police apprehended 36-year-old Steven Bourgoin at the scene early Sunday on Interstate 89 in Williston.Local media outlets are reporting the dead
  
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• Francis names 17 cardinals: 13 of whom electors, 3 from USA

  09-10-2016 13:03
  
  VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has named 17 new cardinals - 13 of them under age 80 and thus eligible to vote in a conclave to elect his successor. Three of the new cardinals are Americans, including moderate Chicago Archbishop Blaise Cupich and Indianapolis Archbishop Joseph Tobin.As is Francis' tradition, the new cardinals hail from some of the most far-away and peripheral corners of the globe, with Africa, Oceania, Asia and South America getting far more representation than Europe, which has lon
  
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• 17 killed in PKK car bomb in southeast Turkey; 27 wounded

  09-10-2016 12:57
  
  ISTANBUL - Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb Sunday outside a military checkpoint in southeast Turkey, killing nine soldiers and eight civilians, the local governor said.Cuneyit Orhan Toprak, governor of Hakkari province where the attack took place, gave the death toll to the private news channel NTV and said 27 other people were wounded in the attack and were rushed to nearby hospitals for treatment. Eleven of the wounded were soldiers, the Turkish military said.Turkey's state-run Anadolu
  
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• Ghali named permanent chancellor at LSU med in Shreveport

  09-10-2016 12:37
  
  SHREVEPORT - LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport has made interim chancellor G.E. Ghali the center's permanent chancellor.The university announced its choice Friday. Ghali had been interim chancellor since February.The Times reports LSU President F. King Alexander also named Ghali dean of the school of medicine.Ghali has guided LSU during the most trying financial times in its history. Last summer he engineered agreements with Willis-Knighton in Shreveport, Christus Health in Shreveport and
  
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• Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant sticks with Trump

  09-10-2016 12:35
  
  JACKSON - Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant says Donald Trump's remarks about women are unacceptable but stopped short of withdrawing support for the GOP presidential nominee's White House bid.In a statement Saturday, Bryant said Trump's comments "do not square with the man I have gotten to know the past few months. He has done the right thing and apologized."In a video, Trump apologized saying he was wrong and had said foolish things, but words and actions aren't the same thing. He called the commen
  
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• Unrestrained child ejected in crash, dies

  09-10-2016 12:32
  
  CROWLEY - An unrestrained 9-year-old girl is dead after being ejected during a crash in Acadia Parish.Louisiana State Police says the accident happened about 11:30 p.m. Friday. Investigators say the crash happened as 35-year-old Tashaka Butler, of Rayne, was headed west on Louisiana 98 and for unknown reasons ran off the left side of the road. Authorities say Butler overcorrected, causing the vehicle to overturn.Butler was not wearing a seatbelt and sustained minor injuries. The victim, identifi
  
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