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• Mayor Broome holds "Call to Action" meetings to help fight crime

  10-10-2017 21:46
  BATON ROUGE- The City of Baton Rouge held a series of four meetings at local churches Tuesday night to discuss curbing crime throughout the city.With 96 homicides this year to the date, Mayor-President Sharon Broome is pushing "Call to Action" meetings to get the community involved in her crime fighting plan.Concerned residents gathered inside of Greater King David Baptist Church to take part in the discussion. They talked with community leaders, law enforcement and faith-based leaders to come
  
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• Police investigating shooting on Frey Street

  10-10-2017 21:22
  BATON ROUGE - Baton Rouge Police are investigating a shooting that injured one man Tuesday night.According to BRPD, the shooting took place around 9:00 p.m. in the 5500 block of Frey Street near Dougherty Drive.A man was reportedly injured in the shooting, according to BRPD. The extent of the victim's injuries is unknown at this time.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Man reportedly shot on Greenwell Springs Road

  10-10-2017 21:04
  BATON ROUGE - A man was reportedly shot on Greenwell Springs Road sometime before 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.According to Baton Rouge Police, the victim was brought to a local hospital in a private vehicle around 8:30 p.m. suffering from an apparent gunshot wound.The victim said he was shot in the 5600 block of Greenwell Springs Road, according to BRPD.The victim is suffering from non-life threatening injuries as a result of the shooting, according to BRPD.This is a developing story. Check back
  
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• TRAFFIC ALERT: All lanes open on I-110 N after two crashes

  10-10-2017 20:50
  BATON ROUGE - Two crashes involving four vehicle caused I-110 North to shut down two lanes of travel Tuesday night.The crashes took place sometime around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night. All lanes are open on I-110 North at Chippewa Street. Traffic congestion is minimal.— Baton Rouge Traffic (@BR_Traffic) October 11, 2017This is a developing story. Check back for updates.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Utah officer fired after nurse's arrest caught on video

  10-10-2017 20:26
  SALT LAKE CITY - Authorities say a Utah police officer who was caught on video roughly handcuffing a nurse because she refused to allow a blood draw has been fired.  A Salt Lake City Police spokesman said Chief Mike Brown made the decision Tuesday following an investigation into Detective Jeff Payne, who made the arrest that became a flashpoint in the ongoing national conversation about police use of force.  Body-camera video showed nurse Alex Wubbels explain
  
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• Employee arrested for allegedly raping elderly patient

  10-10-2017 20:25
  ALEXANDRIA - A 27-year-old Alexandria man has been arrested for allegedly raping an elderly patient at the hospital where he worked.  The Alexandria Police Department says the alleged incident happened Tuesday at a hospital in Alexandria.  The employee, Juantavies White, is accused of having sex with a patient who suffers from dementia.  Further details have not been released.  White faces charges of first-degree rape. He's
  
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• Hospitals say at least 185 treated for injuries

  10-10-2017 19:39
  SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Hospitals say they have treated at least 185 people injured by wildfires that have rampaged through parts of Northern California since Sunday night.  Most of the injured were taken to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital's emergency room, which treated about 100 people since the wildfires began. The hospital said most had respiratory-related issues, including difficulty breathing, asthma and throat irritation, and 14 patients were treated for burns. Three of the b
  
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• US soldiers in Afghanistan shoot confetti to reveal gender of fallen comrade's baby

  10-10-2017 18:35
  Britt Harris was married to her husband, Chris Harris, for less than one year before he died while deployed with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan.Just one week before Chris Harris’s Aug. 2 death at the age of 25 due to an improved explosive device (IED), Britt Harris told her husband she was expecting their first child.“When I told him, it was the happiest I’d ever seen him,” said Britt Harris, 26, of Southern Pines, North Carolina. "He was so excited."Britt
  
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• Survivor living in fear after rash of rural shootings

  10-10-2017 18:29
  CLINTON - The sole survivor in a rash of shootings says he now lives in fear for himself, his family and his community. "Its becoming more and more real each time. I don't understand, it's just hard to take in that this is happening in our community."The man is still in a state of shock when asked about the night he was shot while walking along his property. It's been one month since he was shot, and three others are now dead after similar shootings near the East Baton Rouge-East Felic
  
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• Bride says wedding photographer holding photos hostage

  10-10-2017 17:51
  ZACHARY - A woman hired a professional photographer to take photos of her wedding and reception but says what she got is not what she paid for.Olivia Smart's wedding was a year ago and she hired a family friend to document the event. When she got the photos eleven months later, she could not believe what she saw."You can't even tell who we are," said Smart.As smart stands in her flood-damaged kitchen opening .jpg files of her wedding day, the words frustration and anger come to mind. She was ex
  
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• Authorities: No evidence of reported drive-by shooting in Pride Tuesday

  10-10-2017 16:17
  PRIDE - Authorities say reports they received of a drive-by shooting in Pride Tuesday afternoon were unfounded.A spokesperson said the agency responded to reports of shots fired on Liberty Road near the Pride One Stop just before 4 p.m. The sheriff's office said witnesses reported someone in a passing car fired shots at them on the roadway.Detectives say they found no evidence to suggest that the shooting actually took place.Earlier in the afternoon, the sheriff's office said it was taking the
  
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• Authorities investigating reports of shots fired in Pride; No injuries

  10-10-2017 16:17
  PRIDE - Sheriff's deputies are on the scene of a shots fired call in Pride Tuesday afternoon.The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office says it responded to reports of shots fired on Liberty Road near the Pride One Stop just before 4 p.m. Tuesday. The sheriff's office says witness reported that a passing car fired shots at them on the roadway.The incident occurred near the East Baton Rouge Parish line. Authorities are still investigating the incident."As a precaution because of what's been
  
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• Authorities investigating arson at Baton Rouge home

  10-10-2017 14:50
  BATON ROUGE - Local authorities are investigating a fire that is believed to have been intentionally set at a Baton Rouge home Tuesday. According to the Baton Rouge Fire Department, crews arrived to the scene in the 1800 block of Kentucky Street around 10:20 Tuesday morning. Firefighters entered the home to find a small fire on the floor of a rear bedroom. The fire was quickly extinguished before it could spread.Investigators have ruled the fire a case of arson.Anyone
  
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• Pedestrian in serious condition after being struck on LA 1

  10-10-2017 14:28
  PLAQUEMINE - Police say one person is in serious condition after being struck on LA 1 Tuesday morning.Police say the crash happened around 9 a.m. on LA 1 south of LA 75. According to State Police, the incident occurred just south of Plaquemine. Authorities say the victim was seriously injured.Policed added that no one has been cited, and the crash remains under investigation.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Affidavit reveals student admits to shooting Texas Tech officer

  10-10-2017 14:05
  LUBBOCK, Texas - Authorities say a Texas Tech University student confessed to killing a campus police officer who was booking him on a drug possession charge.  Det. Thomas Bonds of the Lubbock city police department says in an affidavit released Tuesday that 19-year-old Hollis Daniels III wasn't handcuffed while campus police officer Floyd East Jr. was processing him Monday.  Bonds says another officer left the room and then heard a loud bang. When he returne
  
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• Neighbors ask city to block family's Christmas light display

  10-10-2017 14:01
  MADISON, Miss. - Neighbors in a Mississippi suburb want a city to shut down a family's Christmas light display.  The Madison County Journal reports residents are complaining about a display by Carol and Mike Richardson that has grown increasingly elaborate over the last 20 years, asking the Madison Board of Aldermen to declare it a public nuisance. The board is considering the request.  Eddy Edwards, a lawyer who lives two doors down from the Richardsons, tel
  
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• US Supreme Court is asked to block Mississippi LGBT law

  10-10-2017 13:57
  JACKSON, Miss. - Advocates of same-sex marriage are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a new Mississippi law that lets government workers and business people cite their own religious objections to refuse services to LGBT people.  An appeal to the Supreme Court was filed within hours of when the law took effect Tuesday. Legal experts say it's the broadest religious-objections law enacted by any state since a ruling by the nation's high court effectively legalized same
  
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• Dad of boy who died after scalding bath sentenced to 7 years

  10-10-2017 13:48
  LEBANON, Ohio - The father of a 4-year-old Ohio boy who died after his stepmother put him in a scalding bath has been sentenced to seven years in prison for involuntary manslaughter and child endangering.  Robert Ritchie was sentenced Tuesday in Warren County. Prosecutors say the Franklin man failed to get medical treatment that could have saved Austin Cooper's life in March 2016.  Ritchie was convicted at his third trial after two mistrials and could have re
  
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• Searchers find body of missing fisherman on Mississippi lake

  10-10-2017 13:46
  GRENADA, Miss. - Officials have recovered the body of a south Mississippi man believed to have drowned in a north Mississippi lake.  Grenada County Sheriff Alton Strider tells The Hattiesburg American that the body of 71-year-old James Hinton of Hattiesburg was found Monday in Grenada Lake.  The sheriff's department was called Saturday by two other fishermen who found an empty boat going in circles.  Strider says searchers with the Mississip
  
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• 200 people reported missing in California county

  10-10-2017 13:38
  SANTA ROSA, Calif. - A county in California wine country says about 200 missing-person reports have been lodged as family members and friends scramble to locate loved ones while wildfires ravage the region.  Sonoma County spokeswoman Maggie Fleming said Tuesday the reports have come via calls to a hotline.  She says it's possible that most of those reported missing are safe but can't be reached because of the widespread loss of cellphone service and other com
  
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• Good Samaritans go missing during rescue of distressed swimmer

  10-10-2017 12:56
  GULF SHORES – Two good Samaritans who successfully rescued a distressed swimmer off the Alabama coast may have died during the heroic act.The Coast Guard reported it was notified of two missing swimmers Monday evening near Fort Morgan. The swimmers had gone into the water to rescue another person who became distressed while swimming. The person who was having trouble swimming was able to safely make it to the beach, but the two swimmers who went to help did not.The body of one of the
  
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• Former high-ranking Holden administration official resigns from city government

  10-10-2017 12:39
  BATON ROUGE – A high-ranking member of the former mayor's administration who remained on the payroll after Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome took over has resigned, WBRZ learned Tuesday.The mayor's office has confirmed William Daniel submitted his resignation. Daniel was most recently the director of environmental services, a division of the city's Public Works Department. Daniel was at the helm of the division since April. For the first few months of the Broome administration, he
  
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• US out of World Cup contention with 2-1 loss at Trinidad

  10-10-2017 12:19
  COUVA, Trinidad - The United States has been eliminated from World Cup contention, a shocking loss at Trinidad ending the Americans' streak of seven straight appearances at soccer's showcase.  Twenty-eight years after a stunning victory at Trinidad put the Americans back in the World Cup after a four-decade absence, their chances for next year's tournament in Russia ended on this island nation off the coast of Venezuela.  Trinidad and Tobago scored a pair of
  
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• One dead after crash on LA 429 in Gonzales

  10-10-2017 12:05
  GONZALES - Louisiana State Police are investigating a fatal crash that claimed the life of one person Tuesday night on LA 429.According to State Police, the crash occurred on LA 429 east of Hwy. 61 sometime after 8:30 p.m.One person died as a result of the crash, according to State Police. No other information was available.The crash is currently under investigation. Check back for updates.Permalink| Comments
  
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• WBRZ's Dog Days of Summer helps find blind dog a forever family

  10-10-2017 08:53
  BATON ROUGE - A dog awaiting adoption finally found a home after being featured on WBRZ last month.Holly, a three-year-old German Shepherd mix, is blind and sat waiting to be adopted. After the news story about her aired on television, a family went looking for her. Holly is totally blind and only has one eye - the other was removed when she started losing her vision.  She gets around by using smells and the sights and sounds of familiar surroundings.Officially adopted on Sept
  
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• WBRZ's Dog Days of Summer help find blind dog a forever family

  10-10-2017 08:53
  BATON ROUGE - A dog awaiting adoption finally found a home after being featured on WBRZ last month.Holly, a three-year-old German Shepherd mix, is blind and sat waiting to be adopted. After the news story about her aired on television, a family went looking for her. Holly is totally blind and only has one eye - the other was removed when she started losing her vision.  She gets around by using smells and the sights and sounds of familiar surroundings.Officially adopted on Sept
  
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• ExxonMobil donates $300,000 to area middle school for new lab

  10-10-2017 07:31
  BATON ROUGE - ExxonMobil is donating $300,000 to Brookstown Middle Magnet Academy for the schools new Aquaponics lab. According to a news release from Foundation EBR, the East Baton Rouge Parish school will host a ribbon cutting and white coat ceremony for the new lab on Thursday, Oct. 12. Aquaponics refers to any environment raising aquatic animals and plants in one area. The lab is funded by ExxonMobil and Foundation EBR 
  
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• Police: Man calls in bomb threat to avoid paying bar tab

  10-10-2017 06:56
  PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh man has been arrested after police say he called in a false bomb threat to try and get out of paying his restaurant bill.  WPXI-TV reports 40-year-old Barry Clapperton faces charges that include threats to use weapons of mass destruction, public drunkenness and false identification to police.  A witness says Clapperton tried to leave multiple times without paying for his meal at Primanti Brothers. Police were called to the scene, and
  
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• Manufacturing facility to create 200 jobs in Leesville

  10-10-2017 06:49
  BATON ROUGE - Louisiana officials say a new manufacturing facility planned for Leesville will create 200 jobs.  The Champion Home Builders facility will occupy two existing buildings totaling 246,000 square feet in Leesville's Northside Industrial Park. The average annual salary for those working there will be $35,000 plus benefits.  Gov. John Bel Edwards and Champion regional vice president Wade Lyall announced the project in a Monday news release from the s
  
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• Three houses catch fire in City Park area

  10-10-2017 06:16
  BATON ROUGE - Authorities say a vacant home caught fire and spread to two neighboring houses early Tuesday morning. The flames broke out around 2 a.m. in the 1200 block of S. 18th Street near Terrace Avenue. Reports say no one was in any of the homes at the time of the fire. There were no injuries reported. The cause of the fire has not been determined, but the vacant home is being considered a total loss. The other two homes suffered extensive damages.&n
  
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