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• Indian police say 38 injured in train accident

  27-12-2016 20:48
  
  LUCKNOW, India - Police say at least 38 people were injured when 14 coaches of a train derailed in northern India.Superintendent of Police Prabhakar Chaudhary says the accident happened early Wednesday near Kanpur, a city in Uttar Pradesh state. The cause was not immediately known.Ahmed Javed, the state's top police officer, said all of the passengers have been evacuated from the derailed coaches. Television images showed some coaches lying on their sides.This is a second recent rail accident in
  
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• Two suspects wanted in Amite gas station casino armed robbery

  27-12-2016 20:26
  
  AMITE - Authorities are looking for two suspects who robbed a gas station casino at gunpoint last Thursday.According to the St. Helena Parish Sheriff's Office, on Dec. 22 around 8:18 p.m., officials received a report of a robbery at the Tall Timbers Casino on Hwy 16 in Amite.Two armed suspects entered the casino fully masked and proceeded to demand money from a casino employee, officials said. The suspects fled the scene with an undisclosed amount of cash.This is an ongoing inv
  
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• Police: Two suspects wanted in Amite gas station casino armed robbery

  27-12-2016 20:26
  
  AMITE - Authorities are looking for two suspects who robbed a gas station casino at gunpoint last Thursday.According to the St. Helena Parish Sheriff's Office, on Dec. 22 around 8:18 p.m., officials received a report of a robbery at the Tall Timbers Casino on Hwy 16 in Amite.Two armed suspects entered the casino fully masked and proceeded to demand money from a casino employee, officials said. The suspects fled the scene with an undisclosed amount of cash.This is an ongoing inv
  
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• Missing 13-year-old found by Baker Police, says she is safe

  27-12-2016 19:58
  
  BAKER - Baker Police have found Erica Acosta. The 13-year-old is safe.Statewide law enforcement issued a Level II Endangered/Missing Child Alert for the teenager that had been missing from her home for nearly 70 hours.Acosta, 13, was last seen at approximately 1:30 a.m. on Christmas morning, December, 25, 2016, wearing a red pullover t-shirt with white stripes. The alert was sent out around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday. Police reported finding Acosta around 10:15 p.m. Tuesday eve
  
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• BREAKING: Law enforcement looking for missing child

  27-12-2016 19:58
  
  BAKER - Statewide law enforcement has issued a Level II Endangered/Missing Child Alert for a teenager that's been missing from her home for nearly 70 hours.Erica Acosta, 13, is an Hispanic female with long black hair and brown eyes. She is approximately 4’11” tall and weighs about 90 pounds.  She was last seen at approximately 1:30 a.m. on Christmas morning, December, 25, 2016, wearing a red pullover t-shirt with white stripes.Anyone having any information as to the
  
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• Authorities: Small plane crashed in Tennessee, no survivors

  27-12-2016 19:57
  
  GATLINBURG, Tenn. - Authorities say a small plane with three people aboard has crashed in the mountains of eastern Tennessee, and no one survived.A reconnaissance flight by the Tennessee Army National Guard found the plane inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at around 4:45 p.m. Tuesday.A release from the National Park Service says the three on the plane were 41-year-old David Starling, 42-year-old Kim Smith and 8-year-old Hunter Starling, all from Bradford County, Florida.The Cessna 1
  
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• Police: 2 Mississippi men wanted on charges in cat-scalding

  27-12-2016 19:49
  
  MOSS POINT, Miss. - Police are seeking two men who they say burned a cat by pouring hot liquid on the animal while in a cage.Moss Point Police have issued misdemeanor arrest warrants for Larry Rostchild Jr., 43 and Laderrick Rostchild, 24, charging them with aggravated cruelty to an animal.Cmdr. Stacey Deans tells the Sun Herald that police believe the Rostchilds burned the cat, later found dead. The act drew wide attention after a video was posted online Dec. 13.The men could face fines of up t
  
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• Police in Illinois shoot suspect using man as 'human shield'

  27-12-2016 19:40
  
  NORTH RIVERSIDE, Ill. - Police in suburban Chicago have shot a man they say tried to rob a bank, then ran into a nearby store and held an elderly man at knifepoint.North Riverside Police said in a statement Tuesday that the suspect attempted to use the older man as a "human shield" as officers approached and ordered him to the ground. They say the elderly man was able to pull away enough to allow officers to shoot.The suspect, described only as a 41-year-old from Chicago, was taken to a local ho
  
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• 2 would-be robbers reject what they'd demanded

  27-12-2016 19:36
  
  NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans police say two holdups ended with would-be robbers rejecting the belongings they had demanded.A summary emailed by police spokeswoman Dawne Massey says that about 10:20 a.m. Monday, a man with a semi-automatic handgun approached a man and woman near a store. The man ran inside, and the gunman demanded the woman's purse. She tried to hand it over, but the gunman refused it and ran away.About 8:45 p.m. Monday, an armed man forced two people who were leaving a party back i
  
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• Broadway holiday numbers dip, including revenue, attendance

  27-12-2016 19:30
  
  NEW YORK - Broadway box offices failed to break any records over the Christmas holiday, despite mild weather and eye-popping hauls by huge hits like "Hamilton." Revenues, attendance and the number of shows all dipped.The Broadway League trade group said the 32 Broadway shows playing the week ending Sunday scored a combined $30,413,711, attracting 245,913 ticket buyers. Last year at Christmastime, the overall take for 37 shows was $36,271,797 with 299,280 buyers. In 2014, 36 shows attracted $40,9
  
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• Man charged in slaying of actress, yoga teacher

  27-12-2016 19:26
  
  WASHINGTON - Police in Washington have charged a Maryland man with first-degree murder in the death of an actress and yoga teacher who went missing on Christmas.Metropolitan Police said in a news release that 29-year-old Adrian Duane Johnson of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was charged Tuesday. He was arrested after the body of 46-year-old Tricia McCauley of Washington was found in her car late Monday.Authorities say an autopsy showed McCauley died from asphyxia from being strangled by a ligature an
  
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• Oregon trooper in 2nd surgery after shooting; still critical

  27-12-2016 19:18
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. - An Oregon State Police trooper wounded in a Christmas night gunbattle in suburban Portland is in surgery and remains in critical condition.Capt. Bill Fugate told a news conference Tuesday that 32-year-old Trooper Nic Cederberg was undergoing the second of what is expected to be many surgeries following the shootout Sunday. Fugate declined to say how many times Cederberg was shot or to more precisely describe his injuries, citing his family's wishes. He did say the trooper gave h
  
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• Obama calls Japan's premier's visit 'historic'

  27-12-2016 19:05
  
  PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - President Barack Obama says Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Pearl Harbor is a "historic gesture" that shows the power of reconciliation.Obama is speaking at Pearl Harbor along with Abe. It's the first such joint visit by U.S. and Japanese leaders.The president says Abe's presence is a reminder of what's possible between nations and peoples. He says it shows that wars can end and enemies can become allies.Obama says it shows "the fruits of peace always outweig
  
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• Salvation Army flooded, moved, in need of donations

  27-12-2016 17:53
  
  BATON ROUGE - This is a very busy time of year for the Salvation Army. The Baton Rouge chapter says it will gladly take your gently used items for people in need.Cpt. Brett Meredith with the Salvation Army says a lot of people still don't know, the Baton Rouge shelter flooded in August."I run into 20 people a week that didn't know that we flooded," said Meredith.The Baton Rouge shelter, along with the kitchen flooded in August. While that facility is being rebuilt, the Salvation Army is currentl
  
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• Doctors seeing more sinus infections around holiday season

  27-12-2016 17:25
  
  BATON ROUGE – With holiday season in full swing, doctors have seen more people coming down with sinus infections.From coughing, to sneezing, to running noses, doctors have seen the symptoms far too often in their offices recently."We've seen an increase of traffic patients coming in with nasal congestion lots of cough, sore throats, ear pressure, and some sinus infections," Nurse Practitioner Liz Eure said.Eure says that pressure on the sinuses cause the infections."Basically what will
  
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• Bourbon Street to be pedestrian mall for New Year's weekend

  27-12-2016 16:54
  
  NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says that to ensure that truck-driving terrorists cannot get to the city's biggest New Year's crowds, much of Bourbon Street will be pedestrian-only.He says trucks will block intersections from New Year's Eve through the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 2.Landrieu says the city also will bring light towers, security towers and many temporary security cameras in the French Quarter and some other areas.The mayor says police, state troopers and federal agents will w
  
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• City officials working to remove trash pile from front of Central subdivision

  27-12-2016 16:41
  
  CENTRAL – The city is working to get a trash pile in front of a Central subdivision cleaned up.The effort is in response to a report News 2 aired on Monday that showed trash being dumped in a huge pile on the corner of Frenchtown Road near the Geo Je's Community.Central Mayor Junior Shelton told WBRZ on Tuesday that his office checked on the pile following the report and is working to get it removed. Shelton also said that his office is working with the East Baton Rou
  
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• Police evacuate Trump Tower over stray bag of toys

  27-12-2016 16:19
  
  NEW YORK - The lobby of Trump Tower has been cleared so police could investigate a so-called suspicious package that turned out to be an unattended backpack containing children's toys.Video taken by a bystander and posted on Twitter showed people running through the lobby for the exits.Police Department spokesman Stephen Davis said the backpack was found near the entrance to a Nike Town store in the building.The bomb squad checked out the package and gave an "all clear" just after 5 p.m.Presiden
  
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• Ascension to hold Christmas tree drop off event on Jan. 3

  27-12-2016 15:58
  
  ASCENSION – Ascension Parish will hold a Christmas tree drop off event on Tuesday, Jan. 3.The event will run through Sunday, Jan. 15 and be held at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales. The center is located at 9039 St. Landry Road.After residents enter the center's main gate on St. Landry Road, the drop off location will be in the unpaved parking area on the left side as residents enter the property. Signage will direct residents as they enter the property.Parish officials said dec
  
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• Final flood debris pick up in Central on Jan. 4

  27-12-2016 15:04
  
  CENTRAL – The City of Central has arranged for a final flood debris pick up on Jan. 4.According to city officials, the final pass is due to the number of requests that have been received. Officials say that each street will be picked up throughout the city.Only flood related debris will be removed. Construction debris will not be picked up and according to FEMA removal is the responsibility of the contractor or homeowner.The homeowner must separate the construction an
  
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• Deputies looking for Central car burglars

  27-12-2016 13:51
  
  CENTRAL - East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Deputies need help identifying a pair of car burglars caught on camera breaking into two vehicles.Early Thursday around 3:00 a.m., surveillance video captured the two outside of a home on Shoe Creek Drive breaking into a 2015 Ford F150 and a 2007 Lincoln MKZ."Both were wearing hooded sweatshirts and long pants. The hoods of their sweatshirts were on their heads. It also appeared both were wearing gloves on their hands. They were seen rummaging through
  
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• EBRSO searching for men wanted for robbing clothing store on Siegen Lane

  27-12-2016 13:48
  
  BATON ROUGE – The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office is looking for three suspects wanted for the robbery of a clothing store on Siegen Lane.The robbery occurred on Dec. 15 around 8 a.m. at Hana's Fashion in the 7000 block of Siegen. Three black men entered the store wearing hoodies and walked around the store for about ten minutes before grabbing clothes and running out.As the men ran out, an employee followed them and tried to tackle one of them. However, one of the men told
  
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• Zachary residents warned of holiday home burglaries

  27-12-2016 13:16
  
  ZACHARY – The Zachary Police Department is warning residents of several home burglaries during the Christmas holidays where suspects tried to gain entry through the garage.The police department posted on Facebook that officers have seen several burglaries recently where suspects crash into garage doors to get into the home.The department is reminding residents to lock their cars doors, their homes and set their alarms.Residents are also advised to report any suspiciou
  
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• Daughter: Actress and author Carrie Fisher dies at age 60

  27-12-2016 13:02
  
  LOS ANGELES - Actress Carrie Fisher, who found enduring fame as Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars," has died. She was 60.Fisher's daughter, Billie Lourd, released a statement through her spokesman saying Fisher died Tuesday just before 9 a.m PST. Lourd said her mother was "loved by the world and she will be missed profoundly."Fisher had been hospitalized since Friday when she suffered a medical emergency on board a flight to Los Angeles.She made her feature film debut opposite Warren Beat
  
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• Police: Failure to yield kills one passenger in Assumption Parish crash

  27-12-2016 12:32
  
  PAINCOURTVILLE - State Police said a driver's failure to yield led to a two vehicle crash resulting in one death.According to State Police, around 7:00 p.m. Tuesday evening, Troopers from Troop C responded to a two vehicle crash on LA 70 at the intersection with LA Spur 70. The crash claimed the life of 20-year-old Aja Brown of Houma, LA.From the initial investigation, police learned Taris Gregory, 21, was traveling west on LA 70 in a 2016 Honda Civic. Police said Greg
  
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• Deputies arrest Donaldsonville man wanted for home invasion, domestic abuse

  27-12-2016 12:09
  
  ASCENSION – The Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office has located a man who was wanted for domestic abuse battery, violation of a protective order and home invasion charges.Deputies were looking for 30-year-old Daniel London of Donaldsonville and sought the public's assistance of his whereabouts. On Monday, deputies responded to a home on Houmas Street in Donaldsonville in reference to a burglary. Deputies learned that London forced his way into the home and stuck a femal
  
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• Ex-NFL star back in court ahead of double murder trial

  27-12-2016 11:21
  
  BOSTON - Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is heading back to court for another pretrial hearing ahead of his double murder trial in connection with a drive-by shooting in Boston in 2012.Hernandez is charged with killing 29-year-old Daniel de Abreu and 28-year-old Safiro Furtado. Prosecutors say the former football star killed the men after one of them bumped into him at a nightclub earlier. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty.The trial is scheduled to start Feb. 13.Hernandez alrea
  
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• Fog likely to cut visibility in New Orleans area all morning

  27-12-2016 11:16
  
  NEW ORLEANS - Forecasters say a dense fog advisory for the New Orleans area and coastal regions will continue through noon Tuesday.The National Weather Service said cool waters and light southeast winds early Tuesday were aiding the development of sea fog. Forecasters said visibilities in some areas Tuesday morning could be one-quarter of a mile or less.The weather service said more fog could develop Wednesday, but a cold front on Thursday is expected to end the cloudy conditions and fog.Permali
  
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• Winter storm weakens but thousands still without power

  27-12-2016 09:46
  
  CHICAGO - The fury of the winter storm that swept into the northern Great Plains on Christmas Day has weakened, but thousands remain without power in the Dakotas and Michigan.High winds and drifting snow continued to make travel hazardous in the Dakotas heading into Tuesday, even as vast stretches of highways that had been closed reopened to traffic.The storm has caused extensive power outages.The South Dakota Rural Electric Association said roughly 13,700 of its customers were without power as
  
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• Despite disaster, future of flood project remains murky

  27-12-2016 08:49
  
  BATON ROUGE - Despite the flooding that struck south Louisiana in August, prospects for a decades-old project aimed at protecting Baton Rouge area homes remain murky.The 12-mile structure is called the Comite River Diversion Canal. It would siphon high water from the Comite River, sending it instead to the Mississippi River.The Advocate of Baton Rouge reports that officials estimate that the project would have reduced the number of damaged and destroyed homes in the Baton Rouge area by about 25
  
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• Philippines searches for 18 crewmen of ship sunk by typhoon

  27-12-2016 07:13
  
  MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine coast guard is picking up the search for 18 crewmen from a cargo ship that sank at the height of Typhoon Nock-Ten.The coast guard says 14 other crewmen were rescued and one died after the ship sank near where the powerful typhoon passed Monday.At least seven people died in the storm, including the ship's crewman and villagers who drowned.Permalink| Comments
  
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• 12 injured as airliner veers off runway in western India

  27-12-2016 07:10
  
  NEW DELHI - India's Jet Airways says 12 passengers were injured during an emergency evacuation after one of its planes veered off the runway before taking off on a domestic flight in western India.The airline said on its website that 154 passengers and seven crew members were on board the Boeing 737-800 Tuesday at Dabolim Airport in Goa, headed for Mumbai.Seven of the 12 injured passengers were discharged after receiving medical attention, while the other five were still being treated. The airli
  
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• After the storm

  27-12-2016 06:38
  
  CHICAGO - Thousands of homes and businesses are still without power as the northern Great Plains digs out from a winter storm.In North Dakota, the Minot International Airport was closed Monday and airports serving Fargo and Bismarck had flight cancellations.In Michigan, WOOD-TV is reporting that more than 20,000 customers were without power Monday night.Permalink| Comments
  
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• 1 Tenn. inmate still on the run after Christmas Day jail break

  27-12-2016 06:36
  
  NEWPORT, Tenn. - Authorities in Tennessee have now recaptured five of the six inmates who broke out of jail on Christmas.The Cocke County Sheriff's Office says the inmates escaped from the jail early Sunday after removing a toilet from the wall and going through a hole behind it that led to the outside of the facility.Permalink| Comments
  
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• 1 Tenn. inmate still on lam after Christmas Day jail break

  27-12-2016 06:36
  
  NEWPORT, Tenn. - Authorities in Tennessee have now recaptured five of the six inmates who broke out of jail on Christmas.The Cocke County Sheriff's Office says the inmates escaped from the jail early Sunday after removing a toilet from the wall and going through a hole behind it that led to the outside of the facility.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Mom suffocates baby son, kills self in murder-suicide

  27-12-2016 06:34
  
  YORK, Pa. - Police in York, Pennsylvania believe a 40-year-old mother intentionally suffocated her 1-year-old son before taking her own life in an apparent murder-suicide.The bodies were found Monday by police, who were sent to the home on a welfare check.Police say Sheri Shermeyer had a gunshot wound to the head.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Germany: 7 suspected of trying to set fire to homeless man

  27-12-2016 06:33
  
  BERLIN - German police are questioning seven young men who are suspected of trying to set a homeless man alight in a Berlin subway station over Christmas.Berlin police said that six of the suspects turned themselves in Monday evening and the seventh was arrested after authorities released surveillance camera pictures and video footage of them in a subway train. They said Tuesday that the suspects are aged between 15 and 21.The 37-year-old homeless man was sleeping in the Schoenleinstrasse subway
  
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• Mall fights send post-holiday shoppers scrambling for exits

  27-12-2016 06:31
  
  BEACHWOOD, Ohio - Fights have broken out at malls around the country, sending post-holiday shoppers scrambling for the exits.No one was seriously injured in the mall melees Monday night, which during the panic, also prompted numerous false reports of gunfire.Police in Ohio tell Cleveland.com that officers used pepper spray to disperse a large crowd following a fight at an upscale shopping mall in Beachwood, just outside of Cleveland.Police say the incident there appears to have been "loosely org
  
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• US, Japan come together at Pearl Harbor

  27-12-2016 06:26
  
  HONOLULU - The leaders of the U.S. and Japan are coming together today at Pearl Harbor - the place where Japan bombed the U.S. in 1941, throwing America into World War II.President Barack Obama will join Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the memorial that rests on top of the sunken USS Arizona.The Japanese government says Abe will not be apologizing for Pearl Harbor.Obama did not apologize for Hiroshima when he visited Japan in May.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Officials: US, Russian military talks quietly proving useful

  27-12-2016 06:25
  
  WASHINGTON - American officials say U.S.-Russian talks on their separate fights against the Islamic State group are improving and becoming more frequent, with each side trading information and even outlining some of their strategic objectives.Such progress would dispel the notion that ties between the former Cold War foes are "frozen."Officials say that Russia has made clear its counterterrorism priority in Syria is retaking the ancient city of Palmyra. The U.S. is determined to pressure IS' hea
  
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• Flight recorder retrieved

  27-12-2016 06:22
  
  SOCHI, Russia - Russian authorities are hoping that a flight recorder from the military jet that crashed into the Black Sea will help them determine why the plane went down two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of Sochi on Sunday.The defense minister says the flight recorder has not been seriously damaged. All 92 people aboard the plane are believed dead.The plane was headed for Syria and had on board members of the world-famous Russian military choir.Permalink| Comments
  
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