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• WATCH: Deputy's dash cam captures video of small plane crash

  19-11-2017 21:08
  CLEARWATER, Fl.- A deputy's dash cam captured footage of a small plane crash on a Florida roadway Sunday morning.According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, two deputies were responding to a service call around 10 a.m. when a single engine plane crashed on a Clearwater roadway.Deputies rushed to the scene of the crash to assist the pilot and his passenger.The owner of the plane, Marc Benedict, is a resident of Clearwater. He was piloting the airplane at the time of the crash.Aut
  
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• Trump insults Arizona senator as 'Flakey'

  19-11-2017 19:36
  WASHINGTON- President Donald Trump says he thinks Sen. Jeff Flake won't support the Republican tax overhaul, issuing an insulting tweet against the Arizona Republican two days after Flake criticized the president.
    
  Flake was caught on an open microphone Friday saying the GOP is "toast" if the party follows Trump and Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. It was not a surprising sentiment given Flake's previous criticism of Trump.
    
  In a Sunday night tweet, Tr
  
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• Senator Al Franken cut from PBS David Letterman tribute

  19-11-2017 19:32
  LOS ANGELES  - PBS and WETA say Minnesota U.S. Senator Al Franken will not appear substantially in David Letterman's Mark Twain Prize special airing Monday night.  Representatives said Sunday that PBS will air an updated version of the previously filmed event in which Franken will only be visible at the end of the show when the cast joins Letterman on stage.  PBS and WETA said that the inclusion of Franken in the broadcast would distract from the sho
  
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• Six hurt in multiple crashes on Miss. River Bridge

  19-11-2017 19:06
  BATON ROUGE - Authorities say six people were taken to the hospital after multiple crashes on the Mississippi River Bridge Sunday night.The crash was reported around 7 p.m. in the westbound lanes of I-10 on the bridge. Police say several crashes, including an overturned vehicle, caused I-10 West to be shut down completely as they worked to clear the scene.According to DOTD, all lanes have reopened as of 9:30 p.m. Sunday.According to authorities, six people were hospitalized with non life-threat
  
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• 'Cosby Show' actor Earle Hyman dies at 91

  19-11-2017 16:40
  LOS ANGELES - Earle Hyman, a veteran actor of stage and screen who was widely known for playing Russell Huxtable on "The Cosby Show," has died.  Jordan Strohl, a representative for The Actors Fund, says that Hyman died Friday at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey. He was 91.  A North Carolina native, Hyman made his Broadway debut as a teenager in 1943. He would go on to become a charter member of the American Shakespeare Theater. In 1980 H
  
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• Border Patrol agent dies after being injured in Texas

  19-11-2017 16:11
  VAN HORN, Tx.- Authorities are searching Texas' Big Bend for potential suspects and witnesses after a U.S. Customs Border Patrol agent was fatally injured responding to activity there.Authorities did not provide any details Sunday on what caused the agent's injuries or what led to them.Border Patrol spokesman Douglas Mosier says in a statement that agent Rogelio Martinez and his partner were transported to a local hospital, where Martinez died. Martinez's partner is in serious condition. His na
  
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• Child riding bicycle struck near Choctaw Dr.

  19-11-2017 15:47
  BATON ROUGE- Authorities say a child was struck while riding a bicycle Sunday afternoon.The crash was reported around 3 p.m. on Daisy Ave. near Choctaw Dr.Authorities say the child was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.Check back for updates.Permalink| Comments
  
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• 9-year-old helps rescue bus driver after medical emergency

  19-11-2017 14:53
  BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A 9-year-old is being called a hero after she called 911 when her bus driver suddenly became ill and slumped over the wheel.The bus was making its final stop on its route and had only a few students inside when Addison Hutchinson, a Mojave Unified School student, noticed something was wrong."She was just hunched over the wheel squeezing it and she was sweating," Addison told KERO.The 4th grader ran home from the bus and called 911 from a cell phone. She t
  
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• Trader Joe's recalls packaged salads over contamination fear

  19-11-2017 14:45
  LOUISIANA- Trader Joe's says it has recalled several packaged salads after a supplier said there may be shards of glass or hard plastic inside.The grocery chain said Saturday on its website that packages of white meat chicken salad, curried white chicken deli salad and turkey cranberry apple salad sold in some areas that expire from Nov. 10-21 could be contaminated.
    
  The products are labeled with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "inspected" code P-40299.The warning appli
  
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• Moore's wife: President Trump 'owes us a thank you' for diverting attention from Russia probe

  19-11-2017 14:25
  The wife of embattled Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore today continued a fierce pushback against allegations of sexual misconduct and impropriety against her husband, holding a press conference with other conservative Alabama women at the state capitol in Montgomery."The people of Alabama understand what's going on here. My husband, Judge Roy Moore is fighting for the people of Alabama and has been fighting for over 30 years. The people of Alabama know him, they have seen what he has done
  
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• Trump says he should have left UCLA players in Chinese jail

  19-11-2017 13:25
  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says he should have left three UCLA basketball players accused of shoplifting in China in jail.  Trump's tweet Sunday comes after the father of player LiAngelo Ball minimized Trump's involvement in winning the players' release during an interview Saturday with ESPN. Trump has said he raised the players' detention with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the leaders' recent meeting in Beijing.  The players returned to the U.
  
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• Longtime country singer, songwriter Mel Tillis dies

  19-11-2017 12:24
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Mel Tillis, the longtime country star who wrote hits for Kenny Rogers, Ricky Skaggs and many others, and overcame a stutter to sing on dozens of his own singles, has died.  A spokesman for Tillis, Don Murry Grubbs, said Tillis died early Sunday at Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, Florida. He was 85.  Grubbs said Tillis battled intestinal issues since 2016 and never fully recovered. The suspected cause of death is respiratory failure
  
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• Cold case reopened, DNA links Louisiana inmate to 1997 rape

  19-11-2017 12:13
  MARKSVILLE - Louisiana officials say DNA links an Avoyelles Parish inmate to a rape 20 years ago.  Forty-one-year-old Lorenoza Danela Carlos is serving 20 years for a holdup committed in 2004. KPLC-TV reports that he was arrested Nov. 15 on a charge of aggravated rape.  That attack was in Lake Charles in 1997. Deputy Chief Mark Kraus says Lake Charles police began re-investigating the case in May.  Kraus says the attacker climbed in through
  
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• Man faces life for killing ex-girlfriend's brother

  19-11-2017 11:59
  HOUMA, La. - A Louisiana man faces life in prison for killing his former girlfriend's teenage brother and shooting the woman and her mother at their home on Bayou Blue.  Seventeen-year-old David Trahan Jr. died almost instantly on Oct. 25, 2016. The Courier reports that both women survived, and testified against Rhubin Scott Jr.  Jurors also heard voicemail messages that Scott left, yelling and cursing at his ex-girlfriend and threatening to hurt or even kill
  
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• Secret Service apprehends attempted White House fence jumper

  19-11-2017 11:41
  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Secret Service says an individual has been taken into custody after attempting to jump a security barrier on the Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House.  President Donald Trump was inside the White House during the Sunday morning incident.  The Secret Service tweeted at about 8 a.m. Sunday that someone tried to jump a row of metal bike racks that are being used to create a second row of fencing outside the executive mansion.&nbs
  
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• Livingston Parish residents vote against new drainage proposals

  19-11-2017 11:39
  LIVINGSTON PARISH - Voters in two areas of Livingston Parish rejected propositions on their November 18th ballots that would have funded their gravity drainage districts for the first time.Voters in were clear in their opposition Saturday on the two tax proposals that would have solely focused on funding Gravity Drainage Districts in District #6 and #7.“I'm not surprised by the vote,” Parish President Layton Ricks said. “I knew it was an uphill battle for them to p
  
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• Students seek $55M in damages, say dorms had toxic mold

  19-11-2017 11:11
  SUMTER, S.C. - Five current and former students are seeking $55 million in damages in a lawsuit that says they were exposed to toxic mold while living in three dormitories at a South Carolina college.  Multiple media outlets report the five have sued Morris College, a historically black liberal arts college in Sumter. They say they were exposed to mold and other hazardous substances while living in the three dorms in 2013.  The lawsuit says that in addition t
  
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• Sexual assault reports from Fort Bragg increase 28 percent

  19-11-2017 11:06
  RALEIGH, N.C. - A summary released by the Department of Defense shows reports of sexual assault from Fort Bragg increased by 28 percent in 2016 over the year before.  The summary says Fort Bragg received 146 reports of sexual assault in 2016 compared to 114 reports in 2015.  The News & Observer of Raleigh reports that the summary notes that the location of the assault and the location of the report don't necessarily coincide.  Camp Lejeu
  
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