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• LSU fraternity suspends operations after sexual assault report

  22-11-2016 22:32
  
  Woman reports sexual assault at Pi Kappa Alpha chapter house
  
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• Baton Rouge braces for more Alton Sterling-related protests

  22-11-2016 21:58
  
  Federal investigation continues into his death in police shooting
  
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• Settlement approved in Alton Sterling protests lawsuit

  22-11-2016 20:59
  
  BATON ROUGE - The Baton Rouge Metro Council approved a $100,000 settlement for 92 protesters that were arrested during the Alton Sterling protests.The money will be paid in equal parts by the City of Baton Rouge and law enforcement agencies.Each person will receive $230 in damages and bonding fees will be repaid. Protesters sued the city after being arrested during the protests, including Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson.Cash bonds will be returned without claimants having to
  
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• FBI: No charges for Brad Pitt in alleged flight dispute

  22-11-2016 20:06
  
  LOS ANGELES - The FBI says it will not file charges against Brad Pitt stemming from an alleged dispute with his family aboard a private flight.The FBI released a statement Tuesday saying it has reviewed the circumstances of the alleged incident and will not pursue further investigation.Sources familiar with the allegations have said they center on the actor's treatment of his 15-year-old son, Maddox.Angelina Jolie Pitt filed for divorce a few days later. Her attorney said it was "for the health
  
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• Officer in Detroit 'critical' after shooting

  22-11-2016 19:17
  
  DETROIT - Detroit's police chief says a university police officer is in "critical" condition after being shot while on duty near the campus of Wayne State University.James Craig told reporters in the area on Tuesday night that the five-year police veteran was shot once and was in surgery.He says the officer was on patrol when he radioed in and said he was investigating possible thefts from cars. The officer said he was going to speak to someone.Officers who arrived on the scene found the officer
  
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• Detroit Police: Wayne State University officer shot

  22-11-2016 19:17
  
  DETROIT - A spokeswoman for the Detroit Police Department says that an officer from a university in the city has been shot.Officer Shanelle Williams says that the victim of the Tuesday shooting is a Wayne State University officer. She had no additional information.The school has more than 27,000 students and is located in the heart Detroit.The shooting follows four recent incidents in which law enforcement officers were shot.A detective was fatally shot in San Antonio, Texas, on Sunday. Also Sun
  
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• Central residents receive free Thanksgiving meals

  22-11-2016 17:36
  
  CENTRAL – Residents impacted by the August flood received free Thanksgiving meals Tuesday.Sherri Hedges received a dinner and said she is thankful for the meal she received at the food bank since she was not sure about what her family was going to have a holiday meal."It's been wonderful because that's just one less expense you don't have to worry about," Hedges said.The City of Central Food Bank has been in the community for 30 years. Officials said they wanted to be able to
  
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• Community responds to meeting on Alton Sterling shooting investigation

  22-11-2016 17:16
  
  BATON ROUGE – The community spoke responded just one day following a meeting with Governor Edwards and law enforcement to discuss police policy and the shooting of Alton Sterling.Sterling was fatally shot by two Baton Rouge Police officers on July 7th in front of the Triple S convenience store in north Baton Rouge.Micheal Sanders remembers his friend."It hurts a little bit, it does hurt, but I know we have to move forward from this situation," Sanders said.While the D
  
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• Officials announce Ascension debris removal schedule for rest of year

  22-11-2016 16:03
  
  ASCENSION – Ascension Parish officials have released a schedule for debris removal for the remainder of the year.The closing of the Lamar Dixon Center debris drop off location has been closed and debris will no longer be accepted there.On Nov. 23 all household waste and white goods: refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, heat pumps, ovens, ranges, washing machines, clothes dryers and water heaters. After Nov. 23, only construction and demolition debris will be picked up.The schedul
  
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• Michael Jordan, Ellen DeGeneres among 21 to receive Medal of Freedom

  22-11-2016 15:35
  
  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is awarding the nation's highest civilian honor to 21 groundbreaking actors, musicians, athletes and others during a ceremony Tuesday at the White House.Among those getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom: actors Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro and Robert Redford.Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, two of the best basketball players ever, are also among the honorees.Bruce Springsteen and Diana Ross will be recognized for their music.Other honorees include phil
  
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• 20-year-old arrested for looking at child porn while volunteering

  22-11-2016 15:14
  
  BATON ROUGE – A man has been arrested after looking at child porn while volunteering at an animal shelter.20-year-old Connor McCullough was arrested for one count of pornography involving juveniles.McCullough was a volunteer for Capital Area Animal Welfare Society (CAAWS), a volunteer organization for animal welfare. A woman with the organization contacted authorities after she received an email from another volunteer stating that McCullough was seen on the organization's computer acce
  
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• Student carjacked in Uptown New Orleans

  22-11-2016 13:59
  
  NEW ORLEANS – A Tulane University student was carjacked early Tuesday morning in Uptown New Orleans.WWL reports, WBRZ's sister station, that the student was driving her vehicle and stopped at the intersection of Nashville and Claiborne avenues when a car bumped her vehicle from behind.When the student got out to check the damage, three people got of the vehicle. One man pushed the student to the ground and then got into the student's vehicle. The three suspects then fled the scene.The
  
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• Student car jacked in Uptown New Orleans

  22-11-2016 13:59
  
  NEW ORLEANS – A Tulane University student was carjacked early Tuesday morning in Uptown New Orleans.WWL reports, WBRZ's sister station, that the student was driving her vehicle and stopped at the intersection of Nashville and Claiborne avenues when a car bumped her vehicle from behind.When the student got out to check the damage, three people got of the vehicle. One man pushed the student to the ground and then got into the student's vehicle. The three suspects then fled the scene.The
  
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• Man arrested for beating woman, raping child

  22-11-2016 13:38
  
  BATON ROUGE – One man has been arrested for allegedly beating a woman and raping a child on several occasions.The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office arrested 38-year-old Roberto Castro for first degree rape, sexual battery, indecent behavior with juveniles and two counts of domestic abuse battery of a child/ endangering a child.On Nov. 21, a woman told police that her live-in boyfriend, Castro, shoved her to the ground while arguing, causing her to fall and hit her ribs on the bathtub.
  
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• Obama hits 1,000 mark for commutations granted

  22-11-2016 13:32
  
  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has surpassed the 1,000 mark for commutations granted during his presidency after shortening sentences for 79 people.Obama has been granting commutations at rapid-fire pace in his final months in office. The White House says he's commuted more sentences than the past 11 presidents combined.Most of those who have received clemency are nonviolent drug offenders, though many were also convicted of firearms violations related to drug crimes.Obama says "it makes no
  
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• Trump 'seriously considering' Carson for HUD

  22-11-2016 12:55
  
  NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump says he is "seriously considering" retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development.Trump's announcement on Twitter comes a week after Carson let it be known that he is not interested in being considered for any position in the Trump administration.In Tuesday's tweet, Trump says: "I am seriously considering Dr. Ben Carson as the head of HUD. I've gotten to know him well - he's a greatly talented person who loves peopl
  
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• Trump offers Housing secretary job to Ben Carson

  22-11-2016 12:55
  
  NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump has formally offered retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson the position of secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.That's according to a person familiar with the offer who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the deliberations publicly.Carson had previously said he was not interested in serving in Trump's administration.But his business manager Armstrong Williams says Carson has always maintain
  
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• Baylor official charged with misdemeanor assault on reporter

  22-11-2016 12:41
  
  WACO, Texas - A Baylor athletics official has been charged with misdemeanor assault after allegedly grabbing a reporter by the throat after a football game.Associate Athletic Director Heath Nielsen, 47, was charged with grabbing James McBride, a reporter for the Keller-based Texas Blaze newspaper, as McBride tried to take a picture with a Baylor player on Nov. 5.Nielsen was charged Nov. 7 and released on $1,000 bond. Nielsen and Baylor officials did not immediately respond to requests for commen
  
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• Police searching for suspects wanted for robbery on GSRI Avenue

  22-11-2016 11:51
  
  BATON ROUGE – East Baton Rouge Sheriff's detectives are looking for three men wanted for robbing a man on GSRI Avenue.The robbery occurred on Nov. 21 around 3:15 a.m. in the 8500 block of GSRI Avenue.According to reports, the victim was walking to work when a white four-door vehicle stopped near him. The victim stated that two black men were wearing white masks as they got out of the vehicle, while the driver stayed inside. The two men then approached the man and demanded his cell phon
  
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• Robbery suspect shot and killed at Texas Raising Cane's

  22-11-2016 11:50
  
  THE WOODLANDS - An armed robber was killed and multiple others were injured in a shooting at a Raising Cane's near Houston. According to KTRK, a deputy working security at the location shot and killed a man attempting to rob the restaurant. Police treated several people in the parking lot of the Cane's located on Research Forest Parkway. Three individuals were taken to the hospital and their conditions are unknown. The incident occurred sometime around 8:43 p.m. This is a developing story, check
  
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• FEMA gives recovery update 100 days after flood

  22-11-2016 11:14
  
  BATON ROUGE - It's been 100 days since the historic August flood. An estimated seven trillion gallons of rainwater was dumped across southeast Louisiana, according to FEMA. That's more than four times the amount of water in Lake Pontchartrain.Tuesday FEMA announced more than 153,000 individuals and families registered for federal disaster assistance. Of those individuals, 125,000 met with Disaster Survivor Assistance specialists face-to-face and registered more than 4,00 applications.More than 8
  
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• 'Late Late Show's James Corden to host Grammys in February

  22-11-2016 11:10
  
  NEW YORK - Late-night host and "Carpool Karaoke" commuter James Corden will be behind the wheel at the Grammy Awards telecast next February.It will be the first turn for Corden presiding over the Grammycast, which for the past five years has had LL Cool J as host. It airs live Feb. 12 from Los Angeles on CBS, the network and The Recording Academy announced Tuesday.For two years Corden has hosted CBS' "The Late Late Show," where his popular "Carpool Karaoke" feature finds him on the road with pop
  
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• Final debris collection moves to ZIP code 70811

  22-11-2016 09:54
  
  BATON ROUGE – City Parish officials report that final flood debris collection efforts have moved into 70811.Officials say that residents who live in the areas should move flood debris curbside as soon as possible in order for crews to collect it during their final pass.The following are ZIP codes where final collection pass efforts are in progress: 70791, 70811, 70814, 70815, 70819.The following are ZIP codes where final collection pass efforts are complete: 70714, 70739, 70816, 70817.
  
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• Arson suspect wanted after vacant Baton Rouge school fire

  22-11-2016 09:29
  
  BATON ROUGE – Baton Rouge Fire investigators have determined that arson was the cause of a two-alarm fire at Brookstown Middle Magnet.The fire occurred on Friday afternoon. The school had been vacant since the August flood and no students were in the school at the time of the fire.Firefighters were checking equipment in the Station 4 back lot when they noticed the fire at the school.Investigators were able to obtain surveillance video of a person of interest in the matter (pictured abo
  
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• Woman pleads not guilty to inappropriate contact with teen

  22-11-2016 09:20
  
  LAKE CHARLES - A 46-year-old Sulphur woman accused of having inappropriate contact with a teenage girl has been arraigned in state district court.The American Press reports that defense attorney David Green entered not guilty pleas Monday for Angel Owens on three counts of stalking and one count of indecent behavior with a juvenile.A complaint on July 15 with the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff 's Office alleged Owens had been threatening, stalking and having inappropriate contact with a 15-year-old gi
  
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• 67-year-old dies in crash on LA 316

  22-11-2016 09:12
  
  BAYOU BLUE – One 67-year-old man is dead following a single-vehicle crash on LA 316 in Lafourche Parish.The crash took place around 11 p.m. on Monday near Country Estates Drive. The investigation revealed that 67-year-old Clem Whitmire was traveling north on LA 316 in a Dodge Charger at a high rate of speed. He entered a left curve and ran off the roadway to the right.As a result, Whitmire's vehicle overturned several times and struck two utility poles before coming to a stop. Whitmire
  
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• Cajundome renovations nearing completion

  22-11-2016 08:56
  
  LAFAYETTE - A $21.2 million dollar renovation of Lafayette's Cajundome is nearly completion.The official grand opening will be for a Louisiana-Lafayette basketball doubleheader on Dec. 1, but actually, there was a "soft opening" Tuesday with the Louisiana Baptist Youth Conference packing the remodeled facility.Cajundome Director Greg Davis and Operations Manager Phil Ashurst tell The Advertiser while so many construction projects often take longer than expected, there was never a fear o
  
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• Flood-related spending drives Sept. sales up double digits

  22-11-2016 08:53
  
  BATON ROUGE - Consumer and business spending in East Baton Rouge Parish increased by 12.9 percent in September as people affected by the devastating August floods bought building materials and replaced water-damaged cars.Nearly $813.7 million was spent in the parish during September. That's according to figures released Monday by the city-parish Finance Department. That compares with nearly $720.7 million in September 2015.The Advocate reports September's sales boost was no surprise. LSU Economi
  
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• Officer shot in face released from hospital

  22-11-2016 07:07
  
  A St. Louis police sergeant shot twice in the face Sunday evening while he sat in traffic already has been released from the hospital.The gunman was killed in a shootout with police.Police officers were also shot and wounded during traffic stops Sunday in Sanibel, Florida, and Gladstone, Missouri.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Philly police say exploding package was a device

  22-11-2016 07:03
  
  Police Commissioner Richard Ross says a package that exploded in a Philadelphia apartment included an "actual device" that was meant to injure.Federal agents early Tuesday were helping the city's bomb squad investigate the package that injured the 62-year-old Center City man about 4 a.m. He had received the package Monday evening and opened it early Tuesday believing it contained an inhaler or other type of medicine.Ross says that although the package was "target specific," investigators don't c
  
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• Reports say Kanye West has been hospitalized in Los Angeles

  22-11-2016 06:58
  
  LOS ANGELES - Reports say Kanye West has been hospitalized after abruptly canceling the rest of his tour.Various media outlets report based on anonymous law enforcement sources and West representatives that that West was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon because of stress and exhaustion and he is spending the night there for his own safety.Without confirming that the patient was West, Los Angeles police told The Associated Press that officers were call
  
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• Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles will accept cash for some services again, The News Star reports

  22-11-2016 02:26
  
  The agency had installed a "no cash" policy this month, but has partially reversed that move, according to The News Star.
  
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