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• Woman's abdominal pain turns into surprise baby

  22-10-2016 20:01
  
  STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. - Abdominal pain sent Stephanie Jaegers to the hospital.She told her husband, Michael, she believed it was due to kidney stones.When they arrived at the hospital in Stockbridge, Georgia, on Tuesday, doctors asked if she might be pregnant. She said no, and doctors began preparing her for X-rays. But after some observations, doctors changed plans and began preparing her for an ultrasound.Michael Jaegers tells WXIA-TV doctors told him his wife was pregnant - 38 weeks pregn
  
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• AT&T buying HBO and CNN owner Time Warner for $85.4 billion

  22-10-2016 19:53
  
  NEW YORK - AT&T is buying Time Warner, owner of the Warner Bros. movie studio as well as HBO and CNN, for $85.4 billion in a deal that could shake up the media landscape.The merger combines a telecom giant that owns a leading cellphone business, DirecTV and internet service with the company behind some of the world's most popular entertainment. It's the latest tie-up between the owners of digital distribution networks - think cable and phone companies - and entertainment and news providers,
  
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• Pipeline protest prompts more than 80 arrests

  22-10-2016 16:44
  
  MANDAN, N.D. - Authorities in North Dakota say 83 people were arrested Saturday at a construction site of the Dakota Access pipeline.The Morton County sheriff's office says about 300 protesters trespassed three miles onto private property Saturday morning. The sheriff's office says officers used pepper spray when some protesters attempted to breach a line that law enforcement officers had formed between demonstrators and construction equipment.Authorities say the confrontation between o
  
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• Attacks on the internet keep getting bigger and nastier

  22-10-2016 14:44
  
  NEW YORK — Could millions of connected cameras, thermostats and kids' toys bring the internet to its knees? It's beginning to look that way.On Friday, epic cyberattacks crippled a major internet firm, repeatedly disrupting the availability of popular websites across the United States. The hacker group claiming responsibility says that the day's antics were just a dry run and that it has its sights set on a much bigger target. And the attackers now have a secret weapon in the increasing
  
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• Clinton campaign: No health issues after mailed powder found

  22-10-2016 14:42
  
  NEW YORK - The Hillary Clinton campaign says four people have been examined by medical personnel after a white powdery substance arrived at a New York campaign office and they have reported no health issues.Campaign spokesman Glen Caplin said federal and local officials determined the substance was non-hazardous; he provided no further details Saturday.Police say preliminary tests showed the substance found Friday in an envelope at Clinton's Manhattan office, where mail is received, was not harm
  
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• Impairment suspected in deadly Livingston Parish crash

  22-10-2016 14:39
  
  WATSON – State Police say one man is dead and a woman has been charged with vehicular homicide after a two-car crash on LA Hwy 16 in Livingston Parish Saturday morning.The crash happened shortly before 5:30 a.m. on LA Hwy 16 north of LA Hwy 1019.According to Louisiana State Police, 43-year-old Brian K. Broom of Watson was driving northbound on LA 16 when a pickup truck collided with his vehicle head on.Investigators say Broom was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash and suff
  
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• Flood debris in Baton Rouge must be curbside by Nov. 6

  22-10-2016 14:37
  
  BATON ROUGE - Baton Rouge residents are being asked to haul any remaining debris left from the catastrophic mid-August flooding to their curbs by Nov. 6.East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Kip Holden's office says the debris collection efforts are reaching their final stages and flood debris not curbside by the deadline may not be collected by the removal crews hired by the parish.A web-based form is available for residents to report specific addresses where flood debris still needs to be co
  
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• 2 children killed in Georgia home invasion

  22-10-2016 14:21
  
  JONESBORO, Ga. - Police are investigating a deadly home invasion involving children in Georgia.Officers found an 11-year-old girl and 15-year-old boy shot to death inside a house in Jonesboro on Saturday morning. The two were siblings.WSB-TV reports (http://2wsb.tv/2eEsjkk ) there were several other children, as young as 6 years old, inside the house at the time. They were not harmed.Police say it appears two families live in the home but no parents were there at the time of the shootings.Clayto
  
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• Public defenders supporters parade in New Orleans

  22-10-2016 14:14
  
  NEW ORLEANS - Supporters hoping to call attention to budget problems for the public defenders' office in New Orleans will parade in the city.The Orleans Public Defenders office says in a news release that Saturday's second-line parade and rally aims to call attention to "years of chronic underfunding" for public defenders.The parade will feature brass bands as well as social justice groups such as the Louisiana Center for Children's Rights and various social aid and pleasure clubs.The office say
  
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• 7 years for man who followed teen to Louisiana for sex

  22-10-2016 13:40
  
  LAFAYETTE - Federal prosecutors say an Arizona man has been sentenced to seven years in prison after his July guilty plea on a charge that he traveled from Texas to Louisiana to engage in sexual activity with a minor.A Friday news release from U.S. Attorney Stephanie Finley says 26-year-old Jonathan Glosch of Golden Valley was sentenced Thursday.Prosecutors said Glosch was traveling with an Arizona family in November 2015 but was asked to leave the trip in Texas. The mother believed he was havin
  
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• Changes to tuition rules among 6 amendments on La. ballot

  22-10-2016 13:17
  
  BATON ROUGE - Louisiana voters will sift through six constitutional changes proposed on the Nov. 8 ballot.The highest-profile constitutional amendment would give Louisiana's four public college system management boards the ability to set tuition and fee rates without needing legislative approval.Other amendments would change Louisiana's corporate tax structure; create a trust fund to help Louisiana cope with the fluctuations of oil prices and business tax collections; and enact qualifications fo
  
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• Russia says US airstrike "war crime"

  22-10-2016 13:12
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) - The Russian Defense Ministry says an airstrike in Iraq by the U.S.-led coalition has left dozens of civilians dead.The ministry's spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, said Friday's strike on a funeral procession in the town of Daquq has "all the signs of a war crime."Konashenkov said two jets of the U.S.-led coalition were involved in the raid, apparently mistaking the procession for militants of the Islamic State group. The IS on Friday launched an attack on the city of Kirkuk,
  
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• St. Amant native killed on duty as Shreveport cop memorialized on bridge today

  22-10-2016 13:09
  
  SHREVEPORT - A St. Amant native who was killed in the line of duty as a Shreveport Police officer last year will be memorialized in namesake on a bridge that crosses Lake Bistineau.Thomas LaValley was killed in August 2015 after being shot multiple times after answering a call about a suspicious person inside a home.  Grover Cannon is charged in the shooting.  Cannon faces first-degree murder charges.At a ceremony Saturday afternoon, the La. 154 bridg
  
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• One killed, another injured in rural crash Friday

  22-10-2016 12:53
  
  INDEPENDENCE - One person died and a second person was severely injured in a crash on a rural stretch of highway in Tangipahoa Parish Friday evening.State Police said Keil Heinz Albers, 68, Husser, died after riding in a car where the driver lost control and flipped the vehicle down an embankment on La. 442 east of the Tangipahoa River Bridge.  The driver, identified as Gary Passman, 60, Husser, was taken to the hospital.Passman was not wearing a seatbelt, troopers said.  Altho
  
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• Life sentence in 'black widow' case in New Orleans

  22-10-2016 12:46
  
  NEW ORLEANS - A thrice-widowed woman convicted in the death of her second husband - and suspected in the death of her third - has been formally sentenced to life in prison.The mandatory sentence was handed down Friday for Emma Raine, who was convicted in August in the second-degree murder of Ernest Smith.Smith was shot to death at their New Orleans home in 2006.It was a complicated case: Emma's third husband, James Raine, was implicated in plotting Smith's death.James Raine was shot to death in
  
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• Former Louisiana House Speaker Charlie DeWitt fills in on Public Service Commission

  22-10-2016 02:30
  
  He temporarily will take the place of Clyde Holloway, who died last weekend, in the 4th District.
  
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