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• Homeless man wanted for second-degree rape

  18-12-2016 21:17
  
  BATON ROUGE – Deputies in East Baton Rouge Parish are seeking the public’s help to find a homeless man wanted for rape.According to EBRSO spokesperson Casey Hicks, 33-year-old Daniel Hinton is wanted for second-degree rape. Hicks did not release specifics on when or where the crime took place.Authorities describe Hinton as a black male that is 5’7” tall and weighs 145 pounds.Anyone with information is asked to contact EBRSO at 389-5000.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Zsa Zsa Gabor dies at 99

  18-12-2016 17:25
  
  Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian-born darling of Hollywood in the 1950s and '60s, has died.Gabor died around 1 p.m. Sunday, her former publicist Edward Lozzi told ABC News. She was 99 years old.Born Sári Gábor, the actress has never admitted a birthdate but is thought by Hollywood journalists to have been born between 1917 and 1919. Her Wikipedia page cites her birthdate as Feb. 6, 1917, which would make her 99 years old.Gabor got her start in show business in Europe, c
  
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• Man faces attempted murder after Wednesday shooting

  18-12-2016 15:33
  
  BATON ROUGE – Police say a man faces attempted murder charges after a shooting in Baton Rouge Wednesday.According to arrest records, a victim told 31-year-old Tedrick Chambers to leave his home Wednesday. Chambers then puleld out a revolver and shot at the victim three times before fleeing the scene.The arrest records do not indicate where the shooting happened.Sunday morning, a Baton Rouge Police officer working a hit and run accident on Plank Road made contact with Chambers and place
  
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• No injuries after apartment fire on Airline Highway

  18-12-2016 15:19
  
  BATON ROUGE – Firefighters say no one was injured after a heating unit at an Airline Highway apartment complex caught fire Sunday afternoon.According to St. George Fire Department spokesperson Eldon Ledoux, three engines, one ladder and a rescue company responded to a fire at Devonshire Apartments around 12:59 p.m. The fire was control 16 minutes later.Ledoux said the fire was caused by a heating unit in the attic of apartment 241.“The quick response and very aggressive actio
  
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• US gas prices jump 6 cents over 2 weeks to $2.26 a gallon

  18-12-2016 14:33
  
  CAMARILLO - The average price of regular-grade gasoline has jumped 6 cents nationally over the past two weeks, to $2.26 a gallon.Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday the hike mostly results from an agreement Nov. 30 by major oil-producing countries to slash output.Lundberg says the current price is 20 cents a gallon above what it was one year ago. But the 2016 average price is 31 cents below the 2015 average, and $1.21 a gallon below the 2014 average.Gas in San Diego was the highest in t
  
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• 'Rogue One' soars to second-best December debut with $155M

  18-12-2016 14:31
  
  LOS ANGELES - "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" soared to the top of the weekend box office as expected, scoring the second-best December opening ever with $155 million in estimated ticket sales.The intergalactic adventure blasted into theaters with the biggest Thursday night debut of the year and flew past industry expectations for a $130 million weekend."Rogue One" is set before the events of the original 1977 "Star Wars.""Star Wars: The Force Awakens" holds the December record with its $247.9 mi
  
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• Trump Cabinet excites his voters: 'We have to trust him'

  18-12-2016 14:29
  
  As each Cabinet announcement draws fresh criticism of Donald Trump's latest appointees, many Americans who voted for him say the president-elect is doing what he promised to do: draining the swamp.And they're excited.To them, the idea of a defense secretary nicknamed "Mad Dog" is bliss. They rejoice in an energy secretary who once said he would eliminate the Department of Energy. And while some Trump supporters balk at ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson's close ties with Russia's Vladimir Putin, they
  
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• Boy shopping with grandma dies in Arkansas road rage shooting

  18-12-2016 14:26
  
  LITTLE ROCK - Police say a 3-year-old boy being taken on a shopping trip by his grandmother was killed in an Arkansas road rage shooting when a driver opened fire on the grandmother's car because he thought she "wasn't moving fast enough."Authorities say the boy and his grandmother were at a stop sign in southwest Little Rock on Saturday when a driver apparently angry about the delay stepped out of his car and opened fire. They say the boy was struck by gunfire at least once.The grandmother wasn
  
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• La. lawmaker launches nonprofit to focus on women's issues

  18-12-2016 14:21
  
  BATON ROUGE - A New Orleans state lawmaker has created a nonprofit organization to draw attention to women's issues in the Louisiana Legislature.Democratic Rep. Helena Moreno says the Ignite Advocacy Network will alert members about policy issues up for debate and encourage them to attend hearings and write letters to newspapers about them.The nonprofit will focus on employment, health, education and violence prevention issues involving women. Louisiana ranks poorly among states for women's heal
  
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• LSU designated among the nation's bicycle-friendly campuses

  18-12-2016 14:19
  
  BATON ROUGE - LSU has been named one of the nation's bicycle-friendly colleges by the League of American Bicyclists.Across the country, 164 colleges and universities have the designation from the five-year-old program.In recent years, LSU has closed off some of the interior parts of its Baton Rouge campus to regular traffic and installed bike racks on its buses and at most buildings around campus.Louisiana's flagship university also is working with a local community organization to create a bike
  
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• Son's feud with mother gets him arrested

  18-12-2016 11:04
  
  BATON ROUGE - A man told sheriff's deputies he stole checks and other banking information from his mother because he was angry with her.Christopher Contois, 37, was arrested on a list of offenses Saturday after deputies finally tracked him down.  Contois had been wanted for a week since his mother reported her financial information being stolen by him.A week ago, Contois ran from deputies who tried to talk to him about checks his mother said he stole from her.  Contois refused
  
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