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• Drunk LSU fan charged with attacking emergency room workers

  16-10-2016 21:56
  
  BATON ROUGE – A drunk LSU fan was arrested after deputies say he attacked three emergency room employees at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Saturday night.According to arrest records, 20-year-old Michael Curry was arrested at 7 p.m. Saturday, just 30 minutes after kickoff for LSU vs Southern Miss.Hospital employees said that Curry became irate after he was asked for a urine sample. Victims told investigators that Curry punched one employee on the back of her head several times, bruising
  
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• Trump calls SNL spoof 'hit job,' calls for end of show

  16-10-2016 21:40
  
  LOS ANGELES - Donald Trump has some choice words for "Saturday Night Live."The Republican presidential candidate tweeted early Sunday morning that the show's skit depicting him this week was a "hit job." Trump went on to write that it's "time to retire" the show, calling it "boring and unfunny" and adding that Alec Baldwin's portrayal of him "stinks."Saturday's show featured a send-up of the second presidential debate last held last Sunday at Washington University in St. Louis.Baldwin, who retwe
  
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• Biden to speak about ambitious push to find cancer cure

  16-10-2016 21:39
  
  BOSTON - Vice President Joe Biden is speaking in Boston about the White House's ambitious push to find a cure for cancer.Biden will speak Wednesday afternoon about the so-called "Cancer Moonshot" initiative at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate.President Obama announced the initiative in his final State of the Union address in January.He's created a task force comprised of the heads of at least a dozen federal departments and agencies, including the National Cancer Institute, th
  
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• Defense chief calls Iraqi offensive moment to defeat IS

  16-10-2016 21:36
  
  WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Ash Carter is calling the start of Iraqi operations to liberate Mosul "a decisive moment in the campaign" to deliver a lasting defeat to the Islamic State group.Carter says the United States and other members of the international coalition "stand ready to support the Iraqi Security Forces, Peshmerga fighters and the people of Iraq in the difficult fight ahead."Carter expressed confidence in the Iraqis to prevail against the extremists and "free Mosul and the rest o
  
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• NC GOP office damaged by fire, Nazi graffiti

  16-10-2016 16:02
  
  WASHINGTON - A local Republican Party office in North Carolina has been damaged by fire and someone spray-painted an anti-GOP slogan referring to "Nazi Republicans" on a nearby wall, authorities said Sunday.A news release from the town of Hillsborough said someone threw a bottle filled with flammable liquid through the window of the Orange County Republican Party headquarters overnight. The substance ignited and damaged furniture and the interior before burning out.The news release says
  
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• Man shot to death at Baton Rouge bus stop

  16-10-2016 15:48
  
  BATON ROUGE - Police say one person was killed while sitting on a bus stop bench Sunday morning in Baton Rouge. According to Baton Rouge Police, 32-year-old Christopher Wayne Wheeler was found shot to death while at a bus stop at 3656 Plank Road around 8:30 a.m. Sunday. He died at the scene.Police say the motive for the shooting is unknown at this time. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Baton Rouge Police Violent Crimes Unit at 225-389-4869.Permalink| Com
  
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• Florida fans accused of mocking Mike VI's death with cat skeleton

  16-10-2016 14:42
  
  GAINESVILLE – The rivalry between LSU and University of Florida fans got even uglier Saturday after a Gators fan threw a cat skeleton decorated with purple and gold beads onto the sidelines Saturday.A photo showing two two Florida Gators players playing with the prop was posted onto Reddit with the title, "Florida players were mocking the death of LSU's mascot Mike VI with a cat skeleton on the sideline."The photo prompted the University of Florida to release
  
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• US, UK say they're weighing new sanctions on Syria, Russia

  16-10-2016 14:17
  
  LONDON - The United States and Britain say they're considering new economic sanctions on the Syrian and Russian governments because of their conduct in war-ravaged Aleppo.After a 10-nation meeting in London, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said crimes against humanity were occurring daily in Syria.Kerry and British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson are expressing hope about a diplomatic effort with Russia and several other countries that Kerry began on Saturday.But they said they're planning to
  
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• Kuwaiti Cabinet resigns, parliament dissolves

  16-10-2016 13:59
  
  KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait's Cabinet has resigned and its parliament has been dissolved over a "lack of cooperation," setting the stage for early elections.Kuwait's state-run television and news agency made the announcement Sunday after an emergency government meeting.Kuwait, a major oil producer and a stalwart U.S. ally, held its last parliamentary election in 2013. In that race for the 50-seat legislative body, some Islamist groups and opposition boycotted the vote.Ahead of the 2013 poll, Kuwait sti
  
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• 9 killed after bridge collapses near Indonesia's Bali island

  16-10-2016 13:50
  
  JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian officials say at least nine people were killed and 30 others injured after a suspension bridge collapsed near the resort island of Bali.A spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, says the bridge, linking the small islands of Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan off of Bali, collapsed Sunday evening.Nugroho says eight of the victims who died have been identified. They include three children aged from 3 to 9. He says two of the injure
  
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• North Dakota students learn how to build drone businesses

  16-10-2016 13:39
  
  GRAND FORKS, N.D. - One of the leading aviation schools in the country has added a new class to its curriculum: a drone business course.The 24 students in the University of North Dakota class are not only learning how to fly drones, they are receiving real-world business experience. At the end of the semester the will pitch their enterprise ideas to venture capitalists and executives in a "Shark Tank" setting.One of the students, Blaire Beecham, says she discovered a passion for drones late in a
  
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• AP Top 25: Michigan up to No. 3 as Ohio State holds at No. 2

  16-10-2016 13:23
  
  TOP 25 - Michigan moved up to No. 3 in The Associated Press college football poll, right behind No. 2 Ohio State, to give the Big Ten rivals their best combined ranking since the 2006 season, when they played the only 1-vs.-2 game in the series.Alabama remained No. 1 on Sunday with a season-high 60 first-place votes. The Buckeyes stayed No. 2 after an overtime victory against Wisconsin, which fell two spots to 10th. The Wolverines moved up in an off week with Clemson slipping to fourth. The Tige
  
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• Agent: Daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay fatally shot

  16-10-2016 13:14
  
  LEXINGTON, Ky. - Authorities say the 15-year-old daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay has been fatally shot in Kentucky.The Fayette County coroner's office says in a statement that Trinity Gay died at the University of Kentucky Medical Center.The sprinter's agent, Mark Wetmore, confirmed in a text message to The Associated Press that Gay's daughter was killed.Lexington police said in a statement officers went to the parking lot of a restaurant after witnesses reported gunfire exchanged between
  
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• Board to release final report on Geismar plant explosion

  16-10-2016 13:02
  
  NEW ORLEANS - The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board is going to be releasing its final report on the 2013 explosion at a plant in Geismar that killed two people.The organization says in a news release that they will be releasing the report Wednesday during a news conference in Baton Rouge.The release says the report concludes that plant deficiencies in the years leading up to the incident allowed a type of heat exchanger to come under too much pressure.It ultimately ruptured, causin
  
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• LSU AgCenter to hold medical marijuana public forum Oct. 28

  16-10-2016 12:57
  
  BATON ROUGE - The LSU AgCenter plans a public forum Oct. 28 to explain medical marijuana regulations to potential investors.Both LSU and Southern University have said they want to grow and sell marijuana for medical use.The Legislature widened state laws this year, making the treatment available to more people with debilitating diseases.LSU AgCenter officials have said they plan to use private money for what could be a $10 million center to grow and process marijuana on private land away from LS
  
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• USDA awards $40 million for loans by development group

  16-10-2016 12:53
  
  FAYETTE, Miss. - A community development group is being loaned up to $40 million that it can itself then lend to build hospitals, schools and other government and nonprofit facilities. U.S. Undersecretary of Agriculture for Rural Development Lisa Mensah announced funding Thursday to Hope Enterprise Corp. and Hope Credit Union at an event in Jefferson County.Hope is one of 26 groups awarded up to $401 million by the Department of Agriculture, low-cost loans that can be drawn down on a project-by-
  
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• Tulane gets $11.4M, 5-year grant for new research institute

  16-10-2016 12:44
  
  NEW ORLEANS - The National Institutes of Health is giving Tulane University $11.4 over the next five years to get more scientists studying ways to help patients with high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and related conditions.Epidemiology professor Jiang He is using the grant to start an institute aimed at taking lab research into those chronic diseases and moving the findings into clinical studies and then into general use.The grant was made under NIH's Center of Biomedical Research Excellenc
  
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• Handling unsafe; robot to set up Camp Minden remote ignition

  16-10-2016 12:15
  
  CAMP MINDEN - If the air is calm Monday morning, the Louisiana National Guard will use a robot to open a bunker door at Camp Minden and set up remote ignition of 820 pounds of an unstable, fast-burning chemical compound stored there.It's by far the smallest amount of "clean-burning igniter" remaining after a bunker of it exploded Sept. 29.Officials say a Defense Department team found that the three remaining bunkers of igniter are too dangerous to handle but should be quickly destroyed.A magazin
  
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