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• Mosque president says 5 dead in Quebec City shooting

  29-01-2017 21:26
  
  QUEBEC CITY -The president of a Quebec City mosque says five are dead in the shooting in his mosque in the provincial capital.Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre President Mohamed Yangui confirmed the number of dead late Sunday in a telephone call.Authorities did not confirm the number of fatalities.Quebec City police spokesman Constable Pierre Poirier said two suspects have been arrested.Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard termed the act "barbaric violence" and expressed solidarity with the victi
  
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• 6 dead in mosque shooting in Quebec

  29-01-2017 21:26
  
  QUEBEC CITY - A police spokeswoman says one suspect was arrested at the scene and another in a nearby city following last night's deadly shooting at a mosque in Quebec City.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling it a "terrorist attack on Muslims."Six people were killed and eight were wounded, some gravely.A police spokeswoman says one suspect was arrested at the scene and another in a nearby city following last night's deadly shooting at a mosque in Quebec City.Canadian Prime Minister
  
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• White House: Supreme Court choice could be announced Monday

  29-01-2017 19:17
  
  WASHINGTON - A White House official says President Donald Trump could announce his pick for the Supreme Court as early as Monday.Trump originally said the announcement would come on Thursday, but the official says the timeframe could be sped up.Three federal appeals court judges are said to have emerged as leading candidates: Neil Gorsuch, Thomas Hardiman and William Pryor. The official says the president has also been considering Diane Sykes, one of his early favorites for the high court seat.W
  
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• BRPD vehicle shot overnight on W. McKinley Street

  29-01-2017 19:15
  
  BATON ROUGE – Police are investigating after an unoccupied Baton Rouge Police vehicle was found damaged after a shooting Saturday night.According to BRPD Sgt. Don Coppola Jr., police received a shots fired call around 11:30 p.m. Saturday night in the 600 block of W. McKinley Street. Sunday, officers observed damage to a BRPD vehicle as well as a nearby apartment building.Coppola said there are no known injuries, suspects or motive behind the shooting at this time.Permalink| Comments
  
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• South Carolina tech worker visiting Iran can't return to US

  29-01-2017 16:25
  
  RALEIGH - A woman who left her South Carolina home to visit her family in Iran now worries if she will ever be allowed back.Nazanin Zinouri said in a phone interview Sunday with The Associated Press that she left Jan. 20 for Tehran.The 29-year-old Zinouri, who has a doctorate from Clemson University, is among those caught up in the chaos surrounding an executive order issued by President Donald Trump that temporarily bans the entry of citizens from seven countries, including Iran. She has a visa
  
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• Officials: Legal residents of the US can return

  29-01-2017 16:25
  
  The White House is trying to tamp down concerns about President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration order in the face of widespread protests, as some Republicans in Congress urged him to proceed with caution in the face of legal pushback. Top congressional Republicans, however, remain largely behind the new president.Trump's aides are stressing that just a small portion of travelers have been affected by the president's executive order, which temporarily bars the citizens of seven majority Musli
  
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• Tears and detention for US visitors as Trump travel ban hits

  29-01-2017 16:21
  
  NEW YORK - President Donald Trump's plan to fight terrorism by temporarily stopping citizens of seven nations from entering the country has gotten off to a chaotic start.Family reunions were blocked on Saturday, refugees from war-torn countries were turned away and border agents detained scores of unsuspecting travelers at airports.By Saturday night, a federal judge in New York had issued an order blocking the government from deporting people with valid visas who arrived after Trump's travel ban
  
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• Man accused of attacking stranger at gas station

  29-01-2017 15:38
  
  BATON ROUGE – Police say a drunk Baton Rouge man was arrested after attacking a stranger at a Florida Blvd. gas station Saturday.Police say 19-year-old Nathanael McCorvey was charged with simple battery, disturbing the peace (public intoxication) and resisting arrest.According to arrest records, the incident happened around 6 p.m. Saturday at the Mid City Exxon Mart in the 1300 block of Florida Blvd.The victim told police that McCorvey randomly approached him and star
  
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• Two arrested after card game turns violent

  29-01-2017 15:04
  
  BATON ROUGE – Deputies say two people were arrested after a card game turned violent at a Baton Rouge home Saturday.The East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office said Katrina Butler was charged with simple battery and aggravated battery. Charles Butler was also charged with simple battery and aggravated assault. It is unclear how the two are related.According to arrest records, deputies responded to a home on Silverleaf Avenue after Charles Butler said Katrina Butler had attacked him
  
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• Teen accused of assisting in auto theft, ditching vehicle near home

  29-01-2017 14:37
  
  BATON ROUGE - Police say a 17-year-old was arrested after they say he assisted in stealing a vehicle and then leaving it about 50 yards away from his front door.According to arrest records, on Jan. 28 around 6 p.m., Baton Rouge Police responded to a stolen vehicle report. Police located and recovered the vehicle in the 2200 block of 72nd Ave. behind an abandoned school.Due to prior knowledge and interactions, a responding officer believed the suspect lived in a home approximately 50 yards from w
  
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• Smaller states rejoice as Amazon finally collects sales tax

  29-01-2017 13:25
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Many online shoppers in the United States have for years had to pay state sales taxes whenever they buy goods from Amazon.But the Seattle giant has dragged its feet on collecting sales taxes in small and sparsely populated states where it doesn't have a physical presence.That's quickly changing this year. And state governments looking to balance their beleaguered budgets are rejoicing as they brace for a boost of tax revenue from Amazon sales.Customers in at least 10 states wi
  
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• Crews looking for missing Missouri woman find 2nd man's body

  29-01-2017 13:21
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. - For the second straight week, people searching for a missing Missouri woman have found a man's body.Kansas City police say the Saturday discovery is being investigated as a suspicious death but released no details. Police had no updates Sunday.The Kansas City Star reports that relatives of Jessica Runions have been searching for the 21-year-old woman nearly every week since she went missing in early September.Last week, they found a man's decomposing body in a creek bed. He wa
  
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• Police: Woman charged after throwing child on train tracks

  29-01-2017 12:59
  
  BURLINGTON, N.J. - A woman who allegedly threw a 5-year-old girl onto the tracks as a train was approaching has been charged with attempted murder.Police in Burlington, New Jersey, went to the light rail platform around 8:30 p.m. Friday after a New Jersey Transit bus driver reported a suspicious woman.As officers waked onto the platform to approach 20-year-old Autumn Matacchiera, she allegedly grabbed the girl who had been standing with her mother and her mother's boyfriend. She then threw the c
  
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• Police: New Jersey woman charged after throwing child on train tracks

  29-01-2017 12:59
  
  BURLINGTON, N.J. - A woman who allegedly threw a 5-year-old girl onto the tracks as a train was approaching has been charged with attempted murder.Police in Burlington, New Jersey, went to the light rail platform around 8:30 p.m. Friday after a New Jersey Transit bus driver reported a suspicious woman.As officers waked onto the platform to approach 20-year-old Autumn Matacchiera, she allegedly grabbed the girl who had been standing with her mother and her mother's boyfriend. She then threw the c
  
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• 'A Dog's Purpose' opens to $18.4 million amid controversy

  29-01-2017 12:54
  
  LOS ANGELES - "A Dog's Purpose" has underperformed slightly at the box office as it opened in theaters amid controversy over animal treatment on set and calls for a boycott.Based on early projections, the family film was expected to open in the mid $20-million range, but studio estimates Sunday indicated it took in $18.4 million for a second-place start.Yet it's hardly a bomb for a movie that cost only $22 million to produce.First place went again to M. Night Shyamalan's multiple personality thr
  
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• Senate panel to vote on Trump's pick for health secretary

  29-01-2017 12:31
  
  WASHINGTON - Republicans have scheduled a Tuesday vote by the Senate Finance Committee on President Donald Trump's nominee for health secretary.Trump's pick is GOP Rep. Tom Price of Georgia, and the Republican-run committee is expected to back Price along party lines. In his new post, Price will help lead the GOP drive to scrap President Barack Obama's health care law and enact still-uncertain Republican plans to replace it.Democrats have fought Price's nomination. They cite his long-running eff
  
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• Non-sandbar large coastal shark commercial fishing to open

  29-01-2017 12:09
  
  BATON ROUGE - The commercial fishing season for non-sandbar large coastal sharks will open in Louisiana waters at 12:01 a.m. on Feb. 1.The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico will also open at that time. The commercial season will remain open in federal waters until 80 percent of the federal quota has been harvested or is projected to be harvested in the Gulf.The commercial and recreational season for the harvest of all sharks in Louisiana sta
  
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• David Vitter's congressional papers to be housed at Tulane

  29-01-2017 12:04
  
  BATON ROUGE - Former U.S. Sen. David Vitter's papers from his tenure in Congress will be preserved at Tulane University.The university's Louisiana Research Collection announced it will house the documents, which include materials Vitter accumulated during his time as both a member of the Senate and of the U.S. House.The files include correspondence, briefing books, constituent mail, grant and project requests, daily schedules, news clippings and photographs.Vitter, a Republican from Metairie, se
  
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• AgCenter: Late planting, August floods hurt sweet potatoes

  29-01-2017 11:59
  
  MANSURA - The LSU AgCenter says late planting and August floods hurt Louisiana's sweet potato harvest, cutting the yield from 450 bushels an acre in 2015 to 290 bushels per acre last year.Extension Associate Myrl Systrunk told the Louisiana Sweet Potato Association on Jan. 18 in Mansura that the crop was shaping up well until the floods.Louisiana had 9,296 acres of sweet potatoes in 2016, only a slight decrease from 2015's 9,309 acres. Sistrunk said Franklin and West Carroll parish farms make up
  
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• Oyster season to reopen in part of Harvest Areas 3, 4

  29-01-2017 11:57
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. - A portion of the public oyster seed grounds east of the Mississippi River and north of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet will reopen on Tuesday.The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says that area, within Harvest Areas 3 and 4, opens at one-half hour before sunrise on Jan. 31.Daily take and possession limit has been reduced from 50 sacks to 20 sacks per vessel. Department officials say the reduced sack limit likely will reduce the threat to the oyster resources in
  
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• Priebus defends swift action to bar refugees

  29-01-2017 11:52
  
  WASHINGTON - The White House chief of staff says President Donald Trump acted early on in his term to impose a travel ban on refugees to block "people who want to do bad things to America."Reince Priebus says there's nothing to apologize for after Friday's executive order drew widespread protests. A court order has temporarily barred the U.S. from deporting certain people.Trump is temporarily barring refugees and citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S.Priebus tell
  
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• Trump adviser: Judge's order doesn't affect ban

  29-01-2017 11:46
  
  WASHINGTON - A top adviser to President Donald Trump says a federal judge's emergency order "really doesn't affect" his efforts to temporarily bar refugees and citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S.Kellyanne Conway says on "Fox News Sunday" that a federal judge's late Saturday emergency order temporarily barring the U.S. from deporting people from nations subject to Trump's travel ban "really doesn't affect the executive order at all."Conway says Trump's order is
  
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• US soldier killed in raid on al-Qaida in Yemen

  29-01-2017 11:42
  
  SANAA, Yemen - The U.S. military says a service member has been killed and three others wounded in raid in Yemen targeting a local al-Qaida affiliate.U.S. Central Command said in a statement Sunday that another service member was injured in a "hard landing" in a nearby location.It says the aircraft was unable to fly afterward and "was then intentionally destroyed in place."It says 14 fighters from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula were killed in the assault and that U.S. service members captured
  
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• Princess Diana statue to mark 20 years since car crash death

  29-01-2017 11:38
  
  LONDON - The sons of the late Princess Diana plan to build a statue to mark the 20th anniversary of her death in a Paris car crash in 1997.Princes William and Harry have commissioned the statue, which will be paid for with private funds and erected in the public gardens of Diana's former London home, Kensington Palace.They said "the time is right to recognize her positive impact in the U.K. and around the world with a permanent statute."No timetable has been announced, though the princes hope th
  
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• Federer beats Nadal in Australian final to win 18th major

  29-01-2017 11:36
  
  MELBOURNE, Australia - Roger Federer has won his 18th Grand Slam title and put some extra distance on the all-time list between himself and Rafael Nadal, the man he beat 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 in a vintage Australian Open final on Sunday.It was the 35-year-old Federer's fifth Australian title, his first at a major since Wimbledon in 2012, and it reversed the status quo against his nemesis, Nadal.Federer had lost six of the previous eight Grand Slam finals he'd played against Nadal, and had only
  
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• Overnight protests at some airports target immigration

  29-01-2017 11:01
  
  NEW YORK - Overnight, groups of people gathered at major airports rallying against immigration policies President Donald Trump has put in place.The president's executive order suspends immigration from countries with ties to terror, including Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran and Libya, for a time period of 90 days. It also calls for the complete suspension of Syrian refugees for an indefinite period.ABC News reported 375 travelers were impacted by the order Saturday.  T
  
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