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• Protests continue in Philadelphia, LA, more

  13-11-2016 17:47
  
  NEW YORK - Immigrants and their advocates are continuing to march in Manhattan to protest Donald Trump's presidential election win.Organizers say they're speaking out against Trump's support of deportation and other measures.Demonstrations throughout the country - and the world - entered a fifth day Sunday.Several hundred protesters in Philadelphia were marching downtown, some carrying signs that read "Donald Trump has got to go!"A few hundred people gathered outside CNN's Los Angeles h
  
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• Sheriff probing report of shots fired in pipeline protest

  13-11-2016 16:58
  
  MANDAN, N.D. - Authorities in North Dakota are investigating a report of multiple shots fired during a weekend protest against the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline.Morton County sheriff's spokesman Rob Keller on Sunday said the report of shots fired was received Saturday morning, when about 500 people were demonstrating outside a work yard for the pipeline in Mandan, a community adjacent to the state capital of Bismarck and about 50 miles north from an area where hundreds of protes
  
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• Alabama student accused of raping teen in dorm room arrested

  13-11-2016 16:56
  
  TUSCALOOSA - Police say a University of Alabama student accused of raping a teenage girl in a dorm room has been arrested.Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit Capt. Gary Hood tells Al.com on Sunday that 19-year-old Joseph Tyler Pitts is charged with first-degree rape. Hood says an 18-year-old female, also a student at the college, told police she was drinking with Pitts and lost consciousness.Hood says the teen said she was awakened by two friends, who saw Pitts on top of her and having sexual
  
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• Priebus tapped as Trump's White House chief of staff

  13-11-2016 15:44
  
  WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus as his White House chief of staff and conservative media executive Stephen Bannon as his senior counselor.Trump's transition team announced the decisions Sunday. The moves are Trump's first as he sets about putting together his administration.In selecting Priebus, Trump is turning to a Washington veteran with deep ties to Republican leadership, particularly House Speaker Paul Ryan. Bannon ran the conser
  
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• Officer faces probe after driving with Confederate flag

  13-11-2016 13:42
  
  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - A northern Michigan police department will launch an investigation after an off-duty officer was seen driving a pickup truck bearing a Confederate flag around a group protesting Republican Donald Trump's election as president.Traverse City police Chief Jeff O'Brien tells the Traverse City Record-Eagle that an internal review will start Monday to see if any departmental rules were broken.He confirmed that Officer Michael Peters was in a photo taken from Friday's rally.O'Bri
  
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• Toyota to pay up to $3.4 billion to settle US truck lawsuit

  13-11-2016 13:36
  
  WASHINGTON - Toyota will pay up to $3.4 billion to settle a class action lawsuit brought by U.S. pickup truck and SUV owners whose vehicles lacked adequate rust protection.Court filings show that the settlement reached on October 31 covers 1.5 million vehicles, dealing a financial blow to the Japanese automaker whose trucks were subject to corrosion that could harm their structural integrity. The settlement applies to Tacoma trucks made from 2005 to 2010, Sequoias from 2005 to 2008 and Tundras f
  
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• Ryan says Trump agrees 'no place' for racism, hate crimes

  13-11-2016 12:57
  
  WASHINGTON - House Speaker Paul Ryan says the people generating racist graffiti in the wake of Donald Trump's election are "not Republicans" and "we don't want them in our party."The Wisconsin congressman told CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday that, "People should really just put their minds at ease. We are pluralistic, we are inclusive... that's the kind of country we are still going to have."He says he's "confident Donald Trump feels the same way."Ryan was asked about reports or racist graffit
  
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• USS Ramage returns to Ingalls shipyard for improvements

  13-11-2016 12:03
  
  PASCAGOULA, Miss. - The USS Ramage will return to the Ingalls Shipbuilding's Pascagoula shipyard on Nov. 21 for an overhaul.The destroyer was built at Ingalls in the mid-1990s.The Mississippi Press reports Ingalls was recently awarded a contract valued at $21.4 million to modernize the Ramage. The overhaul of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer will include ship alterations, repairs, testing, and procurement of materials. The work is expected to be complete by late 2017.The Ramage was the fifth of
  
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• Trump says border wall could be a fence in spots

  13-11-2016 11:57
  
  WASHINGTON - Donald Trump says he would accept a fence in some places along the U.S. southern border where he had promised to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it.He also told CBS's "60 Minutes" that he's willing to deport or incarcerate 2 million to 3 million people in the country illegally who "are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers."Such a promise was directly at odds with House Speaker Paul Ryan, who told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that mass deportati
  
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• Balloons released in sign of hope in Paris

  13-11-2016 11:56
  
  PARIS - Some people cried, others simply lit candles or laid flowers at the Paris sites where Islamist extremists struck a year ago, killing 130, in coordinated attacks.After a solemn and somber anniversary ceremony led by President Francois Hollande, people have paid respects to the dead at the Bataclan concert hall where 90 were killed, and restaurants and bars dotting a lively neighborhood.Hannah Schumann, a nurse, says that "everybody is emotional. I'm crying."In a sign of hope, several hund
  
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• Strong 6.2 magnitude earthquake hits northwestern Argentina

  13-11-2016 11:53
  
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 has struck northwestern Argentina, but there are no immediate reports of damage or injuries.The earthquake struck just after 8 a.m. local time and was centered about 16 miles north of the community of Chilecito in La Rioja province, near the border with Chile. It had a depth of around 62 miles.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Violence in northern Syria kills 12

  13-11-2016 11:49
  
  BEIRUT - Syrian State media says at least four civilians have been killed in rebel shelling of government-controlled Aleppo. Opposition activists report airstrikes in the rebel-controlled northern parts of the country killed eight.The violence Sunday comes a day after government troops repelled a rebel offensive on western parts of Aleppo launched late October. State news agency SANA said the shelling of a western Aleppo area killed four, including two women and a child.The Syrian Civil Defense,
  
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• Houma CC grads can earn 1-year bachelor's in nursing at LSU

  13-11-2016 11:39
  
  NEW ORLEANS - Graduates of Houma's community college can now use those credits to get a bachelor's of nursing degree in one year at Louisiana State University's nursing school in New Orleans.LSU Health New Orleans says the agreement will let registered nurses with an associate degree from Fletcher Technical Community College earn a bachelor of science in nursing.Applicants must meet all admission requirements of the "RN to BSN " program.Fletcher graduates are eligible for admission to LSU Health
  
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• PotashCorp gives $50K for livestock showmanship cash awards

  13-11-2016 11:26
  
  BATON ROUGE - The LSU AgCenter says the PotashCorp fertilizer plant in Geismar has given $50,000 to expand cash awards for showmanship at the annual LSU AgCenter Livestock Show.The new endowment will provide $125 awards for intermediate and junior showmanship champions in eight categories - dairy cattle, beef cattle, swine, exhibition poultry, broiler poultry, sheep, breeding goats and market goats.PotashCorp gave $40,000 last year to set up an endowment for senior champion awards of $250 in eac
  
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• Rocker Leon Russell dies in Nashville

  13-11-2016 11:21
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Musician Leon Russell, a top session player in the 1960s and '70s who later had a successful solo career with such hits as "Tight Rope" and "Lady Blue," has died. He was 74.An email from Leon Russell Records to The Associated Press says Russell died in Nashville on Saturday night. The email cites Russell's wife as the source of the information. Russell had heart bypass surgery in July and was recovering from that at the time of his death.Russell was primarily a keyboard player
  
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• Prime Minister: At least 2 dead in New Zealand quake

  13-11-2016 11:19
  
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand Prime Minister John Key says at least two people were killed in the powerful earthquake that struck the country.Key did not provide any further details at a news conference Monday morning in Wellington, the capital.Authorities said they were not yet declaring a national emergency, saying the regions are coping well.The magnitude-7.8 quake struck early Monday, just after midnight, 214 kilometers (132 miles) south of Wellington, where it collapsed a ferry load
  
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• Powerful New Zealand quake causes local tsunami

  13-11-2016 11:19
  
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand authorities say a powerful earthquake has generated a tsunami, with the first waves hitting the South Island.The department of civil defense warned people all along the country's east coast to move to higher ground.The magnitude-7.8 quake struck just after midnight Sunday near the city of Christchurch. It was at a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles).Some minor damage was reported in the capital, Wellington, over 200 kilometers (120 miles) awa
  
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• Report: S. Korea prosecutors likely to question president

  13-11-2016 11:15
  
  SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's Yonhap news agency is quoting prosecutors as saying they will likely question President Park Geun-hye over suspicion that she let a shadowy longtime confidante manipulate power from behind the scenes.If would be the first time that a sitting president has been questioned by prosecutors.Yonhap quoted a Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office official as saying Sunday that the questioning is most likely to take place later this week.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Teen injured in New Iberia shooting Sunday

  13-11-2016 11:06
  
  NEW IBERIA – Deputies in Iberia Parish say one man was injured in a shooting in New Iberia Sunday night.According to Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office Captain Wendell Rayborn, the shooting happened in the 600 block of Ambassador W Lemelle Drive around 8 p.m.At the scene, Rayborn said deputies found a 17-year-old man suffering from a single gunshot wound to his abdomen. Deputies say the victim was conscious and speaking to deputies. He was transported to Lafayette General Medical
  
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