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• Bond reduced for man who drove on Orlando airport tarmac

  24-12-2016 21:05
  
  ORLANDO - A Florida judge has reduced bond for a Canadian man who drove a baggage-towing vehicle across the tarmac at Orlando International Airport.
      
  The Orlando Sentinel reports an Orange County judge reduced 27-year-old Richard Hogh's bond from $5,100 to $2,600 on Saturday.
      
  United Airlines employees removed Hogh from his Chicago-bound flight Friday. Police say he removed his pants while making his way to the tarmac, where he climbe
  
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• Engineer in NYC crash that killed 4 to get lifetime pension

  24-12-2016 21:01
  
  NEW YORK - A published report says an engineer who fell asleep at the controls of a speeding train in New York City and caused a derailment that killed four people will receive a lifetime disability pension.
      
  The Journal News reports that William Rockefeller will receive $3,200 a month from Metro-North Railroad.
      
  Rockefeller was at the controls of a Metro-North train that derailed in the Bronx in December 2013. Four passengers were ki
  
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• A&E scraps KKK series after learning of cash payments

  24-12-2016 21:00
  
  NEW YORK - A&E is scrapping plans for an eight-part documentary series about the Ku Klux Klan after finding out that some participants of the hate group were paid for their work on it.
      
  The network said Saturday it was dropping "Escaping the KKK: A Documentary Series Exposing Hate in America" a day after discovering that "nominal" cash payments were given by third-party producers.
      
  The network says in a statement that "while we st
  
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• Family rescue at Grand Canyon a "Christmas miracle"

  24-12-2016 20:58
  
  JACOB LAKE, Ariz. - An Arizona sheriff's official says it's "a Christmas miracle" that searchers found a Pennsylvania woman and her family stranded in a snowy Arizona forest after their vehicle got stuck before a severe winter storm hit the area.
      
  Coconino County Deputy Jim Driscoll says 46-year-old Karen Klein of Easton, Pennsylvania was found exhausted at a closed Grand Canyon National Park early Saturday morning after she hiked 27 miles.
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• Baton Rouge man gets 51 months for threatening Monroe judge

  24-12-2016 17:35
  
  SHREVEPORT - A prisoner who threatened a Monroe judge has been given a four year and three month sentence.
      
  U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley says 28-year-old Charles Lidberg, of Baton Rouge, was sentenced on one count of making threatening communications.
      
  Lidberg, who has been serving time in state prison for an unrelated crime, pleaded guilty in August. Finley's office says Lidberg sent a letter to U.S. Magistrate Karen L. Hayes' o
  
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• The holiday shopping season is losing some of its power

  24-12-2016 12:39
  
  NEW YORK - The holiday shopping season is losing some of its power in the year's sales.November and December now account for less than 21 percent of annual retail sales at physical stores, down from a peak of over 25 percent, and experts believe it'll keep dropping. Those extra percentage points would have translated into an extra $70 billion more in buying for last year, says Michael Niemira, principal at The Retail Economist.The season had steadily gained in importance and peaked in the early
  
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• Friday evening shooting on Denham St. leaves one dead

  24-12-2016 12:18
  
  BATON ROUGE - A shooting that occurred on Denham St. Friday evening left one person dead, according to police.BRPD said around 10:10 p.m. Friday evening, Kendrick Bell, 28, was shot multiple times in the 4000 block of Denham Street. Bell died at the scene.The motive to this shooting is still unknown. Anyone with information on this incident is urged to contact the Violent Crimes Unit at 389-4869 or Crime Stoppers at 344-7867. Permalink| Comments
  
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• Police: Impairment suspected in wrong-way crash on US 61

  24-12-2016 11:57
  
  BATON ROUGE - State Police responded to a head-on collision between two vehicles that left one of the drivers dead early Saturday morning.The crash occurred around 3 a.m. Saturday morning on US 61.According to State Police, the crash took the life of Hayes Davenport, 54, after he was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of US 61. While traveling the wrong way, Davenport's vehicle struck a northbound vehicle head-on, according to police.Police said Davenport was properly restrained at the
  
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• One injured in shooting on Heidel Avenue

  24-12-2016 11:41
  
  BATON ROUGE - One person has been transported to the hospital after a shooting on Heidel Avenue.Officials say it happened around 9:30 in the 6000 block of Heidel Avenue near E. Brookstown Drive.The victim was transported to the hospital to be treated for undisclosed injuries. Officials confirm the lone victim is in stable condition.This is a developing story. Stay tuned for more updates.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Ferriday seeks missing police equipment

  24-12-2016 11:38
  
  FERRIDAY - Ferriday police are looking for missing equipment signed out to employees who left or were fired during the past four years, but a department consultant believes the items will be returned.The Ferriday Board of Alderman had voted to contact Louisiana State Police to ask for help in auditing equipment, but consultant John Cowan said he thinks it's a matter the department can handle internally.The Natchez Democrat reports (http://bit.ly/2hzwJK1 ) the missing equipment includes stun guns
  
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• More budget cuts, special session worries ahead in Louisiana

  24-12-2016 11:36
  
  BATON ROUGE - Gov. John Bel Edwards and Louisiana's lawmakers didn't need to wait for Christmas to get the lump of coal in their stockings. They already knew about the financial headaches they'll have to tackle in 2017.Louisiana's 15th midyear budget gap in nine years is expected to be formally recognized in January, when the state's income forecasting panel puts a dollar figure on a shortfall from the current budget year that began July 1.The shortfall is expected to reach around $300 million.A
  
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• Officer shot in eye back home, forgives shooter

  24-12-2016 11:34
  
  SOUTHAVEN, Miss. - A Clarksdale police officer who was shot in the eye early this year is back home, and says he forgives the 19-year-old man accused of shooting him.In February, Cpl. Derrick Couch was sedated and unconscious. He began walking in July. He was in Clarksdale's Christmas parade, waving to the crowd from a car with the mayor and police chief.Mayor Bill Luckett tells the Press Register that when he first saw Couch in intensive care, he thought he was going to die. He calls it a mirac
  
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• Legislative conference, event trips costs $98K since session

  24-12-2016 11:31
  
  BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana Legislature has spent at least $98,000 for lawmakers to travel to conferences and meet with colleagues in other states since they wrapped up their legislative sessions this year.Thirty-five of 105 House members and 13 of 39 senators traveled to Illinois, Kentucky, Oregon, Arkansas and elsewhere during the summer and fall.Lawmakers went to meetings of the Southern Legislative Conference in Lexington, Kentucky; the National Conference of State Legislatures in Chicago; t
  
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• LSU Health: $6.4M contract to clean vacant Charity Hospital

  24-12-2016 11:29
  
  NEW ORLEANS - Early next year, crews will begin cleaning out the art deco public hospital abandoned after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans.Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans tells WDSU-TV (http://bit.ly/2hQRQe4 ) that it has awarded a $6.4 million contract to clean Charity Hospital.Spokeswoman Leslie Capo says there's also a $487,000 contract to clean out a second building on the hospital grounds.She says Zimmer Eschete Service II LLC must clean the hospital wi
  
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• Louisiana woman killed in Alabama crash

  24-12-2016 11:26
  
  LIVINGSTON, Ala. - A Louisiana woman is dead after a two-vehicle crash in Sumter County.Alabama State troopers tell Al.com that 36-year-old Angela Michelle Primeaux, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was seriously injured when the 2001 Jeep in which she was a passenger struck a 2013 Ford Escape before leaving the roadway and striking a tree.Primeaux and the Jeep's driver, 33-year-old Ronnie Dean Spence Jr., of Orchard Hill, Georgia, were both transported to DCH Regional Medical Center in Tusca
  
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• NBA, players complete process of ratifying new labor deal

  24-12-2016 11:00
  
  The votes are in, and labor peace in the NBA is virtually assured for several years.The National Basketball Players Association has completed its process of voting to approve the terms of the next collective bargaining agreement between the league and its players, which was tentatively agreed upon last week. All that's left to do now is for the sides to sign the deal, which will happen once the writing of the actual document is completed.Members of the NBA's Board of Governors voted unanimously
  
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• 3 arrested in Tunisia linked to Berlin suspect

  24-12-2016 09:51
  
  MILAN - Tunisia's Interior Ministry says police have arrested Anis Amri's nephew and two others suspected of belonging to the same extremist network.The ministry says in a statement that Amri - suspected of driving a truck into a Christmas market crowd in Berlin, killing 12 - had sent his 18-year-old nephew Fedi money to join him in Europe.It is unclear whether the suspects helped Amri flee Berlin.The nephew was arrested in Amri's hometown of Oueslatia while the others were arrested in Tunis. Th
  
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• New Roads Police arrest mom accused of giving birth, dumping newborn baby in Walmart bathroom trash can

  24-12-2016 01:33
  
  NEW ROADS - Just before noon, on Christmas Eve, police from New Roads arrested Kyandrea Thomas.
  Thomas is accused of giving birth in a Walmart bathroom, then dumping her newborn baby in a bathroom trash can before leaving the store.
  Thomas was arrested after she checked herself in to Lane Memorial Hospital, in Zachary. Around 8:00 p.m., New Roads Police and District 5 firefighters responded to reports of an unresponsive baby left in the Walmart bathroom on Hospital Rd.Firefighters perfo
  
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• Mother of infant delivered and left in bathroom garbage can found in hospital

  24-12-2016 01:33
  
  NEW ROADS - Police have located the mother of an infant girl delivered inside of a Walmart bathroom, wrapped in a garbage bag and left in a trash can.Police have not released the name of the mother at this time, but early Saturday morning sources told News 2 she was checked into Lane Memorial Hospital in Zachary shortly after giving birth inside the Walmart bathroom in New Roads.She has not been arrested or charged, but New Roads Police have an arrest warrant ready for her upon her release from
  
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