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• LSU Parade Ground appears empty amid temporary tailgate restrictions

  23-09-2017 21:18
  BATON ROUGE - The LSU Parade Ground was unusually quiet during game-day without Greek tailgaters.Saturday's home game atmosphere was missing a bit without the normal racket of Greek students crowding the Parade Ground.Following the death of Phi Delta Theta pledge, Maxwell Gruver, LSU authorities put an indefinite ban on Greek life activities. Authorities also beefed up on law enforcement to discourage underage drinking. At the last home game, law enforcement
  
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• Oakland's Bruce Maxwell first MLB player to kneel during anthem

  23-09-2017 20:52
  OAKLAND, Calif. - Bruce Maxwell of the Oakland Athletics has become the first major league baseball player to kneel during the national anthem.  Maxwell dropped to a knee just outside Oakland's dugout on Saturday, adopting a protest started by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in response to police treatment of blacks. Maxwell's teammates stood in a line next to him. Teammate Mark Canha, who is white, put his right hand on one of Maxwell's shoulders.&
  
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• Clinton man killed in four vehicle crash

  23-09-2017 20:05
  CLINTON - Louisiana State Police are investigating a fatal four vehicle crash that occurred Saturday around noon on LA Highway 10. That crash claimed the life of 66-year-old James Felker.  Authorities say the driver of a tractor-trailer, 41-year-old Daniel Jonson, was traveling westbound on LA 10 and veered into the eastbound lane as he tried to avoid the two vehicles ahead of him which had slowed down for a left turning driver. The tractor-trailer struck str
  
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• Pregnant doctor goes into labor during patient's delivery

  23-09-2017 19:43
  IOWA - A pregnant doctor went into labor while delivering her patient's baby. OB-GYN Emily Jacobs was in the process of delivering her patient's baby when she noticed some fluid leaking. "I noticed what I thought was the amniotic fluid of the patient, as the baby was delivering," Jacobs told ABC News. "It wasn't until I left the room when I realized that it was my water that had broken." The 28-year-old was ushered into a triage room by her superviso
  
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• Lafayette man arrested for father's murder

  23-09-2017 18:45
  LAFAYETTE - A Lafayette man is in custody after a domestic dispute turned deadly.  Twenty-five-year-old Damarkus Adams is accused of fatally shooting his father, 48-year-old John Adams, during an altercation.  KATC-TV reports Lafayette police responded to a residence. in reference to a shooting at 10:15 p.m. Friday. Upon arrival, officers discovered the elder Adams dead inside the home from an apparent gunshot wound.  Damarkus Adams was arre
  
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• Man arrested for shooting outside local club

  23-09-2017 16:11
  BATON ROUGE - A man was arrested early Saturday morning after allegedly shooting another man outside a local club. According to the affidavit, 39-year-old Will Armstrong was apprehended after witnesses say they saw him shoot the victim outside the 21st Century Night Club near Scenic Hwy.  When police arrived on the scene, witnesses explained that Armstrong lived in a home behind the night club. He left his home and targeted the victim directly outside venue. When poli
  
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• Area man arrested for beating girlfriend, kidnapping her son

  23-09-2017 16:08
  BATON ROUGE - The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office arrested a man for allegedly striking his girlfriend and kidnapping her son. According to the affidavit, sheriff's deputies were called to the scene of a disturbance in the 2000 block of Thomas H. Delpit Drive around 11 o'clock Friday night.When authorities arrived, they witnessed 30-year-old Oran Brice standing over the victim, who was bleeding from her face and holding her child. The fema
  
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• Social Security worker allegedly lies to qualify for subsidy

  23-09-2017 14:43
  NEW ORLEANS - An employee for the U.S. Social Security Administration has been charged with making a false statement to the government in order to qualify for low-income housing subsidies.  Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans, in a news release Friday, said 31-year-old Perneita Price, of New Orleans, was charged in a bill of information and, if convicted, faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.  According to Evans' office, Price, from 2013 throu
  
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• Grambling State student shot in fight at dormitory

  23-09-2017 14:27
  GRAMBLING - Grambling Police are investigating a shooting that happened on Grambling State University's campus.  According to police, it happened around 10:30 p.m. Thursday.  Local media outlets report university spokesman Will Sutton confirms a student let another person into a dorm room and there was an altercation that ended with one man shot in the left arm. The victim was transported to Lincoln Memorial before being transferred to University Health Shrev
  
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• Officials in Puerto Rico plead for supplies

  23-09-2017 14:06
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Dozens of anxious mayors are arriving to meet with Puerto Rico's governor to present a long list of things they urgently need after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.  They mayors they are worried about hospitals, a home for the elderly and bridges that have collapsed.  Jose Sanchez Gonzalez, the mayor of the north coastal town of Manati, says he needs basic supplies such as water, ice and gas immediately.  He say
  
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• Man gets life in prison plus 50 years in student's slaying

  23-09-2017 14:05
  SAVANNAH, Tenn. - A Tennessee man has avoided a possible death penalty by agreeing to a sentence of life in prison plus 50 years for the kidnapping, rape and killing of nursing student Holly Bobo.  Judge C. Creed McGinley told a jury Saturday that Zachary Adams made a deal with prosecutors just minutes ahead of his sentencing hearing. Adams was convicted Friday of murder, especially aggravated kidnapping and aggravated rape after an 11-day jury trial in Savannah, Tennessee.&am
  
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• LSU freshman with cancer flips coin at Saturday's game

  23-09-2017 13:44
  BATON ROUGE - An LSU student got his chance to shine during the opening coin toss at the LSU's game against Syracuse Saturday night. Kayne Finley and his service dog, Moose, rode to the center of Tiger Stadium to open the game as the designated coin toss official.Finley was diagnosed with a rare brain cancer that impedes his ability to walk and speak. But instead of dwelling on his limitations, the 18-year-old uses them as motivation to purs
  
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• 7-year sentence for woman in 10-year, $4 million theft case

  23-09-2017 13:43
  LAKE CHARLES - A former bookkeeper for a Louisiana company has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for stealing more than $4 million in 10 years.  The U.S. Attorney's Office in Lake Charles says 52-year-old Elizabeth Istre was sentenced Friday to 87 months on three counts of wire fraud. She was convicted in federal court in May.  Istre was indicted in 2016 for theft from LM Daigle Oil Distributors, a family-owned company in Sulphur. &am
  
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• Louisiana congressman opposes changes to Barksdale air show

  23-09-2017 13:32
  BATON ROUGE - A Louisiana congressman is urging leaders at the Barksdale Air Force Base to reconsider a decision to hold the base's air show in alternating years, rather than annually.  U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham says the air show, held at the Bossier Parish base since 1932, has helped boost public support for aviation and the U.S. Air Force and its programs.  He says the air show draws more than 150,000 visitors to northwest Louisiana, contributing tourism doll
  
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• Police: Stolen RV recovered with about 10 dogs still inside

  23-09-2017 13:13
  FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - Police in western Washington state say they've recovered a stolen motor home and reunited its owner with about 10 dogs that were inside.  Authorities tell KING-TV that police in Lacey on Saturday also took into custody one person in connection with the case.  Officials say someone stole the Winnebago on Friday evening from the parking lot of a Federal Way sporting goods store. That's about 35 miles from where police in Lacey reco
  
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• Death toll reaches 305 in central Mexico quake

  23-09-2017 13:08
  MEXICO CITY - Officials say the death toll from this week's magnitude 7.1 earthquake in central Mexico has climbed to 305.  Civil Defense chief Luis Felipe Puente sent out a tweet on Saturday saying 167 of those deaths were in Mexico City.  Morelos state accounted for 73, Puebla for 45, Mexico State for 13, Guerrero for six and Oaxaca for one.  Rescue work is continuing four days after the quake struck.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Some of earliest US landscape photos coming to New Orleans

  23-09-2017 12:46
  NEW ORLEANS - Some of the oldest daguerreotypes and photographs of U.S. landscapes are about to go on display in New Orleans, as part of the first exhibit and study of such landscapes made east of the Mississippi River.  Photographs of vast, unspoiled Western vistas are well known, many of them from federal land surveys after the Civil War. But the East was long settled when daguerreotypes were invented in 1839.  Exhibit organizers were struck by how many pic
  
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• New 6.1 quake centered in southern Mexico

  23-09-2017 12:44
  MEXICO CITY - The U.S. Geological Survey says the new earthquake to strike Mexico had a magnitude of 6.1 and was centered in the southern state of Oaxaca. It initially calculated the magnitude as 6.2  The director of Mexico's disaster agency says it's an aftershock of the 8.1 quake that hit on Sept. 7 off the country's southern coast.  The new quake also swayed buildings in Mexico City, which is trying to recover from a magnitude 7.1 temblor that struck on Th
  
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• Trump tells NBA star Curry that White House visit is off

  23-09-2017 12:39
  SOMERSET, N.J. - President Donald Trump says if a basketball player doesn't want to visit the White House to celebrate an NBA title, then don't bother showing up.  That's Trump's response on Twitter to star Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors - who's made it clear he's not interested in a traditional post-title White House visit.  Curry told reporters on Friday: "I don't want to go ... my beliefs stay the same."  And now Trump's weigh
  
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