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• Teen killed in fatal crash on LA 417

  19-02-2017 21:28
  
  POINTE COUPEE - A teenager was killed in a fatal crash on LA 417 early Sunday morning.According to Louisiana State Police, 17-year-old Clayton Jarreau of Ventress was killed while traveling southbound on LA 417 in a 2003 GMC Sierra around 3 a.m. Troopers say he was not wearing a seatbelt and failed to take a turn properly. He suffered fatal injuries when his vehicle overturned.Two passengers were also in the vehicle at the time of the crash. They were transported to Ou
  
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• Deputies searching for two escaped Tangipahoa inmates

  19-02-2017 19:22
  
  AMITE - Two inmates have escaped the Tangipahoa Parish Jail and remain at large.According Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards, Christopher Woolridge, 23, and Daeshawn Woolridge, 20, escaped at 3:15 p.m. Sunday. Surveillance footage confirmed a jail breach in which the Woolridge brothers were seen exiting the grounds, leaving their jail uniforms behind.The two were last seen near Bennett Rd. and McCoy Ln.With the assistance of Homeland Security, Louisiana State Police, Livi
  
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• Convicted felon arrested after shooting himself in the leg on Elm Drive

  19-02-2017 17:30
  
  BATON ROUGE - Baton Rouge Police arrested a convicted felon after he accidentally shot himself in the leg on Elm Drive Sunday afternoon.According to the Baton Rouge Police Department, they received a call that a victim was shot in 4600 block of Elm Dr. at Shelley St. around 5 p.m. Upon arrival, police found 26-year-old Christopher Chatman with gunshot wound in his leg.Chatman told police that he heard gunshots and was struck by a bullet near a corner store.Officers then found a bullet c
  
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• Man leaves mispelled apology note after attacking truck with baseball bat

  19-02-2017 16:33
  
  CARBONDALE, Colo. - Police in western Colorado say a man battered somebody else's pickup with a baseball bat and then left a note acknowledging he had anger issues.Police say the note read, "Sorryy anger isusesh."The Glenwood Springs Post Independent reports the attack occurred in January near Carbondale.The pickup's owner found the damage and the note when he returned from snowmobiling. Two witnesses told police another snowmobiler apparently thought the pickup had parked too close to his vehic
  
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• Police seeking suitcase possibly containing remains of Colorado woman

  19-02-2017 15:54
  
  BOULDER, Colo. - Police are asking for the public's help in finding a purple suitcase that may contain remains of a 25-year-old Colorado woman after her former boyfriend was arrested in Oklahoma on a murder charge.The Boulder Daily Camera reports police in Colorado believe that partial remains found in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, on Wednesday were those of Ashley Mead. She disappeared from Boulder, Colorado, this month.Investigators in the two states say they believe other remains might have been left i
  
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• Police seek help finding suitcase linked to Colorado slaying

  19-02-2017 15:54
  
  BOULDER, Colo. - Police are asking for the public's help in finding a purple suitcase that may contain remains of a 25-year-old Colorado woman after her former boyfriend was arrested in Oklahoma on a murder charge.The Boulder Daily Camera reports police in Colorado believe that partial remains found in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, on Wednesday were those of Ashley Mead. She disappeared from Boulder, Colorado, this month.Investigators in the two states say they believe other remains might have been left i
  
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• LSP: Unrestrained man dies in Lafourche Parish crash

  19-02-2017 14:56
  
  DES ALLEMENDS - A fatal two-vehicle crash on US 90 claimed the life of one driver Saturday evening.According to State Police, 39-year-old Jamie Delatte of Des Allemends was involved in a crash on US 90 just east of Cypress Drive shortly before 7 p.m.The initial investigation by State Police revealed Delatte was driving westbound on US 90 in a 2012 Honda Civic. Delatte was allegedly in the inside lane and attempted to make a U-turn through a turnaround in the m
  
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• 'Lego Batman' tears down 'The Great Wall' to stay No. 1

  19-02-2017 14:40
  
  NEW YORK - "The Lego Batman Movie" commanded the Presidents Day weekend box office, staying No. 1 for the second straight week, while the China-focused "The Great Wall" failed to show much muscle in North America.According to studio estimates Sunday. "The Lego Batman Movie" topped the weekend with $34.2 million, sliding only 35 percent from the previous week. The Warner Bros. release will cross $100 million cumulatively on Monday.Universal's "Fifty Shades Darker" pulled in $21 million in its sec
  
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• 'Lego Batman' stays No. 1; 'The Great Wall' crumbles

  19-02-2017 14:40
  
  NEW YORK - "The Lego Batman Movie" commanded the Presidents Day weekend box office, staying No. 1 for the second straight week, while the China-focused "The Great Wall" failed to show much muscle in North America.According to studio estimates Sunday. "The Lego Batman Movie" topped the weekend with $34.2 million, sliding only 35 percent from the previous week. The Warner Bros. release will cross $100 million cumulatively on Monday.Universal's "Fifty Shades Darker" pulled in $21 million in its sec
  
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• Man booked on multiple charges after alleged struggle with Sheriff's deputy

  19-02-2017 14:17
  
  BATON ROUGE - A 30-year-old Baton Rouge man was arrested on multiple charges after he allegedly became combatant during a traffic stop Saturday.According to arrest records, on Feb. 18, Sheriff's deputies were called to a residence in regard to a hit and run.The victim reported damage to a mailbox. A witness provided a vehicle description for the vehicle that reportedly caused the damage.The responding deputy then conducted a traffic stop on Dustin Drago. When stopped, Drago did not have
  
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• Inmate dies after fight with cellmate at Mississippi prison

  19-02-2017 13:49
  
  WOODVILLE, Miss. - Authorities say a prison inmate has been killed after a fight with his cellmate.The Clarion-Ledger reports that 33-year-old Eric Heinz was pronounced dead shortly before noon Saturday after the fight at the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility. He had been found unresponsive on the floor of his cell.The name of the cellmate and the cause of death were not immediately released.The Jackson newspaper reports that Heinz was serving a total of 20 years for armed robbery and burgl
  
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• Senior Trump appointee fired after critical comments

  19-02-2017 13:42
  
  WASHINGTON - A senior Trump administration official was fired after criticizing President Donald Trump's policies toward Mexico during a private speech.Trump had appointed Craig Deare last month to head the National Security Council's Western Hemisphere division. On Friday, Deare was escorted out of the building where he worked.A senior White House official confirms that Deare no longer works at the NSC. That official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an incident not otherwise made publ
  
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• SpaceX launches rocket from NASA's historic moon pad

  19-02-2017 13:39
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's historic moonshot pad is back in business.A SpaceX Falcon rocket blasted off Sunday morning from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. It was visible for just seconds before ducking into clouds on its way to the International Space Station, with a load of supplies.Astronauts flew to the moon from this very spot nearly a half-century ago. The pad was last used for NASA's final shuttle mission nearly six years ago.This is SpaceX's first launch from Florida since
  
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• Alabama releases red snapper statistics

  19-02-2017 13:36
  
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama wildlife officials say the federal government is still overestimating the amount of red snapper caught in the Gulf of Mexico.A new report from the Alabama Marine Resources Division says a mandatory state reporting program estimates the state's charter boats and private recreational anglers caught about 1.5 million pounds of snapper last year.That number compares to a federal survey program that estimates more than 2.7 million pounds of red snapper were landed in Alabam
  
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• Police hunting for monk increase pressure on Thai temple

  19-02-2017 11:09
  
  PATHUM THANI, Thailand - Police in Thailand who spent three days in an orderly but unsuccessful search of a vast Buddhist temple for a prominent monk accused of financial wrongdoing kept up the pressure Sunday, sending fresh forces to confront devotees and monks at the compound's gates.Around 3,000 police had surrounded the Dhammakaya sect temple north of Bangkok from Thursday through Saturday, while smaller squads searched for its chief, Phra Dhammajayo, who is accused of accepting $40 million
  
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• Malaysia searching for 4 N. Korean suspects who left country

  19-02-2017 11:02
  
  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's senior police official says they are looking for four more North Korean suspects who had left the country the same day the North Korean leader's brother died after being attacked at the airport.Malaysia's deputy national police chief Noor Rashid Ibrahim identified all four at a news conference on Sunday. He also identified a fifth person of interest and showed photographs of two more North Koreans who were not identified by name but are also wanted by the gove
  
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• Iraqi forces launch push to retake western Mosul from IS

  19-02-2017 09:59
  
  BAGHDAD - Iraqi forces have launched an operation to retake the western half of Mosul from the Islamic State group.Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of the operation early Sunday morning on state television, saying government forces were moving to "liberate the people of Mosul from Daesh oppression forever", using the Arabic acronym for IS.Southwest of Mosul, near the city's IS-held airport, plumes of smoke were seen rising into the sky as coalition aircraft bombed militan
  
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