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• Questions surround fatal Seneca Street shooting

  09-09-2017 21:04
  BATON ROUGE - An elderly man was gunned down inside his car almost nine hours after his next door neighbors were murdered.  68-year-old David Walker was killed while driving his vehicle along Seneca Street on Friday night. Hours earlier, his next door neighbors, Harold Anthony and Donovan Cummings were shot and killed on Thomas H. Delpit Drive.The morning of the double homicide, Walker told WBRZ that he saw people fleeing the scene, but wasn't sure who pulled
  
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• One stabbed at LSU Parade Ground

  09-09-2017 17:34
  BATON ROUGE - One person was stabbed on the LSU Parade Ground Saturday afternoon. LSU Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard says the victim was not an LSU student. Authorities say the victim was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Permalink| Comments
  
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• Programming Note: WBRZ News 2 at 6 will air on 2.2, cable channel 11

  09-09-2017 17:14
  BATON ROUGE - Due to the Pittsburgh vs Penn State game, WBRZ News 2 at 6 will air on antenna channel 2.2 and cable channel 11. ABC will rejoin the news in progress after the game has ended. Permalink| Comments
  
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• Programming Note: WBRZ News 2 at 10 will air following the end of Oklahoma vs Ohio State

  09-09-2017 17:14
  BATON ROUGE - WBRZ News 2 at 10 will air after the Oklahoma vs Ohio State game.  Stick with us for the latest on Hurricane Irma, LSU and Southern football and more. Permalink| Comments
  
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• Baton Rouge first responders to help with Hurricane Irma relief

  09-09-2017 16:54
  BATON ROUGE - Mayor Sharon Weston Broome announced Saturday afternoon that East Baton Rouge Parish first responders will travel to Florida to help with Hurricane Irma relief. In a press release, Broome said that Louisiana is sending Task Force 2 to aid Floridians before and after the storm hits."Being able to physically assist on the ground is extremely important," Broome said. "We are more than willing to provide whatever we can." First responders will be st
  
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• Watch Southern vs Southern Miss on WBTR

  09-09-2017 14:42
  BATON ROUGE - The Southern Jaguars will take on the Southern Miss Golden Eagles Saturday night, and you can watch all the action on WBTR.The game will be on channel 19 for both Cox and AT&T U-verse subscribers.Kickoff is set for 6:00 p.m. at Robert Stadium in Hattiesburg, Miss. But Baton Rouge area residents can watch the game on WBTR.This will be the second game of the season for the Jags as they're coming off a 14-8 victory over South Carolina State last week. The Golden Eagles w
  
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• Total asked to evacuate Hurricane Irma nears 7M

  09-09-2017 14:27
  Florida emergency management officials have asked another 700,000 to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Irma. That brings the total number asked to evacuate multiple states to nearly 7 million.  Florida's Division of Emergency Management said Saturday that officials have issued a mix of mandatory and voluntary evacuation orders to 6.3 million residents. The number rose overnight as the predicted path of Hurricane Irma has shifted west. It's likely to come ashore Sunday. &
  
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• Mexico reports 2 dead due to in Hurricane Katia

  09-09-2017 14:25
  JUCHITAN, Mexico - The governor of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz is reporting two deaths related to the arrival of Hurricane Katia, which hit the state overnight.  Gov. Miguel Angel Yunes says the two died in a mudslide. The mountainous region where the storm has been dumping rain has a history of deadly floods and slides.  Yunes said Saturday that there were no other reports of major damage, though he said some rivers had risen to near flood stage.&nb
  
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• Defendant's health at issue in Katrina shooting case

  09-09-2017 14:14
  NEW ORLEANS - A Sept. 28 federal court hearing in New Orleans will focus on the physical and mental health of a white man accused of firing a shotgun at three black men in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.  Roland Bourgeois Jr. faces charges including firearms and civil rights violations. He was indicted in 2010.  The indictment said he fired at three black people walking in New Orleans' Algiers neighborhood three days after much of the city had flo
  
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• Woman who chose baby instead of chemotherapy has died

  09-09-2017 14:09
  DETROIT - A Michigan woman who sacrificed the chance to prolong her life in order to give birth to her sixth child has died.  Nick DeKlyen tells The Associated Press that his wife, Carrie DeKlyen, died early Saturday surrounded by family.  He says among the last things he said to her were, "I'll see you in Heaven."  Doctors removed Carrie DeKlyen's feeding and breathing tubes on Thursday, a day after she gave birth to her daughter Life Lynn
  
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• Delta State sculpture honors professor killed in shooting

  09-09-2017 14:00
  CLEVELAND, Miss. - Delta State University has dedicated a sculpture to a history professor killed in a 2015 campus shooting.  The university placed the 8-foot steel and rope statue, Broken Arrow, in downtown Cleveland in August. It's part of the 3,600-student university's Hazel and Jimmy Sanders Sculpture Garden.  The statue by Delta State graduate Lawson King honors Ethan Schmidt, killed in his office by instructor Shannon Lamb. Lamb earlier killed a woman h
  
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• Ex-prison guard pleads guilty to beating handcuffed inmate

  09-09-2017 13:49
  BATON ROUGE - A former correctional officer at Louisiana's maximum-security prison has pleaded guilty to participating in the beating of a handcuffed and shackled inmate.  Thirty-year-old John Sanders, of Marksville, was one of four officers charged in the inmate's alleged beating at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola in January 2014.  Federal prosecutors say Sanders repeatedly punched the inmate in the head in retaliation for an earlier incident and then
  
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• Irma forecast to hit Florida Keys at daybreak

  09-09-2017 13:39
  Forecasters expect winds of more than 110 mph from Hurricane Irma to smack the Florida Keys around daybreak Sunday.  Irma was lingering over the northern Cuba coast on Saturday. Its forward speed has slowed to 9 mph and it has yet to make the expected big northward turn toward Florida yet. Its maximum sustained winds were 125 mph.  The U.S. National Hurricane Center's latest forecast  - which still can change a bit and has a margin of error
  
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• Woman arrested for allegedly stealing, cashing scratch-off lotto tickets at work

  09-09-2017 13:34
  BATON ROUGE - A 20-year-old Baton Rouge woman was arrested after she allegedly stole and fraudulently cashed scratch-off lottery tickets at her place of work.According to arrest records, the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office was informed of the theft by management from a local convenience store.Surveillance video in the store was reviewed, and captured the suspect, Daja Allen, as she allegedly "took scratch-off tickets from the store without purchasing them and would scratch the tickets while a
  
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• New Jersey officers return to Baton Rouge after helping in 2016 flood

  09-09-2017 13:05
  BATON ROUGE - Several New Jersey police officers traded in their uniforms for purple and gold at the request of Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore.Moore and the Baton Rouge Police Department invited the Jersey natives down to Tiger Stadium as a thank-you gesture, for their service during the Great Flood of 2016. One-year ago, these officers delivered flood relief supplies to Baton Rouge families in need. One of the officers, Jesse Novalis, said it was the right thing to do."The
  
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• One injured after apparent armed robbery turns into shooting

  09-09-2017 12:55
  SLIDELL - A man was injured in a shooting that took place in the Slidell area Friday night, according to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office.The male victim arrived at a local hospital in a private vehicle shortly after 7 p.m. with a single gunshot wound to the abdomen, according to STPSO.Through the investigation, authorities discovered the shooting took place at the victim's residence, in the 300 block of Lakeshore Blvd., during an apparent armed robbery, according to STPSO.A juvenile is
  
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• Friends create lifelong bond strengthened by tailgate tradition

  09-09-2017 12:33
  BATON ROUGE - If you're ever at a tailgate, you've probably seen Thomas Lamont and Paul Felker.Their friendship spans about 50 years when the two first became close in grade school. "We've been buddies since 8th grade," Felker said. "There's a bunch of us that went to high school together." Since those days back in Covington, Louisiana, Lamont and Pelker keep their friendship alive through LSU football. The two best friends crated a tradition of tailgating at
  
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