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• 1 dead, 5 hurt after tree falls on Los Angeles wedding party

  17-12-2016 20:53
  
  WHITTIER - Southern California fire officials say one person died and five people were injured after a large eucalyptus tree fell down onto a wedding party taking pictures at a park.Several people were trapped after the tree toppled Saturday in Whittier at Penn Park.Officials say four of the injured suffered scrapes and bruises and one had moderate injuries.Witnesses described hearing a loud crack and seeing people run from the area.No other details were immediately available.UPDATE: #PennIC CD
  
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• Obama tees off vacation with round of golf

  17-12-2016 15:34
  
  HONOLULU - President Barack Obama started off his first day of vacation in Hawaii with a round of golf at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.Obama's motorcade left his Kailua vacation rental home midday under partly cloudy skies with temperatures in the 70s, after arriving from chilly Washington D.C. Friday night.The motorcade passed by a few signs saying "Close Gitmo," ''Open Cuba," ''Drones Kill Kids" and "Aloha please talk with us" and people standing in their yards taking pictures.As the moto
  
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• Roof won't use mental health experts to try to save his life

  17-12-2016 14:30
  
  COLUMBIA - Dylann Roof won't ask jurors to consider his mental health when they decide whether to spare his life when he is sentenced for killing nine black Charleston church worshippers.Roof filed a notice with a federal judge Friday night saying he won't call any mental health experts during the penalty phase of his trial starting Jan. 3.In a journal detailing his racist beliefs shown to jurors at his trial, Roof wrote that psychology is a Jewish invention that tells people they have problems
  
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• WWII meet www: World War II oral histories now going online

  17-12-2016 14:24
  
  NEW ORLEANS - It's D-Days - that is, digital days - at the National World War II Museum, with historians seeking to storm the internet and move thousands of first-person accounts of the fighting online.Executives with the New Orleans museum say creating a vast online digital collection of 9,000 existing oral and written histories will take longer than the war was fought - 10 years and $11 million dollars. The task is enormous: thousands of hours of audio and video must be handled and millions of
  
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• No surprises expected with Louisiana's electoral votes

  17-12-2016 14:22
  
  BATON ROUGE - Louisiana electoral voters say they've been inundated with emails and letters trying to persuade them to change their minds about casting ballots for Donald Trump.That doesn't mean any of the state's eight electoral voters is expected to make a switch.State officials expect a quick, straightforward set of votes Monday for Trump in Louisiana, where the Republican president-elect got 58 percent support in the November election.The state's electors were chosen by the Republican Party
  
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• Boating festival of Christmas lights floats again

  17-12-2016 14:18
  
  HOUMA - Boats decorated with festive Christmas lights for the holiday season will take once more to the waters ahead of Christmas.The Courier reports the Ala Bayou Terrebonne Christmas Boat Parade takes place Saturday. The decorated boats float about three miles from Bourg to Humble Canal in Montegut.The parade started in 1988.Parade organizer Kevin Belanger and his family and friends usually get together around the holidays to decorate their boats. It generally takes about three days to rig up
  
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• State's gray triggerfish season will remain closed for 2017

  17-12-2016 14:15
  
  BATON ROUGE - Louisiana's season for recreational harvest of gray triggerfish will remain closed in state waters for all of the 2017 season.The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says the season was originally scheduled to re-open Jan. 1, however the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries announced that accountability measures are being enacted which led to a closure of the entire 2017 season in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. They asked that Louisian
  
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• One of two suspects in deadly home invasion arrested

  17-12-2016 11:17
  
  BATON ROUGE – One of two suspects in a home invasion and murder earlier this week has been arrested.Carl Smith, 32, faces principal to murder and home invasion charges. Smith was booked into jail overnight.Investigators said Smith and an unknown shooter forced their way into a home on Ritterman Avenue last weekend where  Juan Montgomery, 37, was shot to death. Smith and the shooter left the house in Smith's girlfriend’s car. An eyewitness gave police the license plat
  
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• Man missing for week since night out at Livingston bar

  17-12-2016 09:47
  
  SPRINGFIELD – A family is desperately searching for a loved one who disappeared after a night at a bar a week ago.“Bob” Holmes was last seen at Ditch Bar around 1 a.m. last Saturday. Holmes, 73, has not been heard from since making a phone call around 3:40 that morning.Family members said since, his phone goes straight to voice mail.Holmes is described as having gray hair, blue eyes and about 5'8" tall. He lives in Holden, La and was last seen driving his 2005 Black
  
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