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• Protesters demand for removal of Confederate statue in Port Allen

  28-06-2020 21:02 via wbrz.com
  
  PORT ALLEN - Dozens of residents and some elected officials marched to the West Baton Rouge Parish Courthouse on Sunday, demanding that the statue of a former Governor of Louisiana and slave owner be removed."I don't see no Jews celebrating no Hitler. I don't want this nowhere. Not in Louisiana, not anywhere in the United States. It's time for this all of this racist junk to come down," Zachary City Councilman, Lael Montgomery said.The statue is of former Confederate Louisiana governor, General
  
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• Mississippi surrenders Confederate symbol from state flag

  28-06-2020 20:20 via wbrz.com
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.A broad coalition of lawmakers — Black and white, Democrat and Republican — voted Sunday for change as the state faced increasing pressure amid nationwide protests against racial injustice.Mississippi has a 38% Black population, and
  
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• Look away, Dixie: Mississippi to lose rebel emblem from flag

  28-06-2020 20:20 via wbrz.com
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers voted Sunday to surrender the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.Spectators cheered and applauded after the votes in the House and Senate.Each chamber had broad bipartisan support for the historic decision. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has said he will sign the bill, and the state flag will lose its official s
  
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• Report: Cam Newton agrees to one-year deal with New England Patriots

  28-06-2020 19:40 via wbrz.com
  
  Former NFL MVP Cam Newton has reportedly reached an agreement on a one-year, incentive-laden deal with the New England Patriots, league sources told ESPN.According to ESPN, the Patriots longtime QB, Tom Brady, who is now with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, will be replaced by Newton. The Patriots did not select a quarterback in April's draft.The Carolina Panthers released Newton on March 24 putting an end to their nine-year relationship. Newton was drafted No. 1 overall in
  
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• MISSING: Police search for 34-year-old man with autism; last seen in Baker

  28-06-2020 17:18 via wbrz.com
  BAKER - Police is asking for assistance in locating 34-year-old man.On Saturday Jason Wayne Nettles left a family member's residence in Baker. Nettles was last seen walking east on Groom Rd. near the intersection of Plank Rd. Nettles and his family recent moved to the area and said that his destination in unknown. Nettles is autistic and has other health issues that require medication. According to a relative, Nettles has not taken his prescribed medication on several days.Net
  
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• FOUND: Police find missing 34-year-old man with autism

  28-06-2020 17:18 via wbrz.com
  
  BAKER -UPDATE: The Baker Police Department says that Jason Wayne Nettles has been located. He is safe and well.*************Police is asking for assistance in locating 34-year-old man.On Saturday Jason Wayne Nettles left a family member's residence in Baker. Nettles was last seen walking east on Groom Rd. near the intersection of Plank Rd. Nettles and his family recent moved to the area and said that his destination in unknown. Nettles is autistic and has other health issues t
  
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• Front Porch Project raises $1.2 million, shifts focus to highlight businesses

  28-06-2020 15:49 via wbrz.com
  BATON ROUGE – A pay it forward project has reached a huge milestone. The Front Porch Project, which provides free family pictures during the pandemic in exchange for monetary donations to local businesses, has raised $1.2 million throughout the state.“I personally was able to capture around 900 porches,” said Jenn Ocken, one of the 20-plus photographers in Baton Rouge who joined the project. "We all felt so fulfilled because not only did we now have a purpose durin
  
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• Vacant house consumed in flames on Myrtle Walk

  28-06-2020 15:15 via wbrz.com
  BATON ROUGE - A vacant house was set ablaze early morning Sunday.Around 1:30 a.m. the Baton Rouge Fire Department responded to a house fire in the 1500 block of Myrtle Walk near Park Blvd.By time firefighters arrived the structure was fully engulfed in flames.No injuries were reported. The house was a total loss. BRFD says the cause of the fire is arson. Permalink| Comments
  
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• Feds indict New Orleans city councilman, another attorney

  28-06-2020 14:36 via wbrz.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment Friday against New Orleans City Council President Jason Williams and an attorney in his law firm on tax fraud charges.Williams is accused of inflating his business expenses from 2013 to 2017 in order to reduce his tax liability by more than $200,000, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Louisiana said in a news release.The indictment also said Williams, a criminal defense lawyer, and Ni
  
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• Bridge City Man Killed in Jefferson Parish Crash

  28-06-2020 12:08 via wbrz.com
  
  TERRYTOWN -Earlier yesterday evening, Louisiana State Police began investigating a single vehicle fatality crash on LA 23 at Wall Blvd which occurred at approximately 8:10 pm. The crash took the life of 69-year-old John Bonvillain of Bridge City.The initial investigation revealed that the crash occurred as Bonvillain was driving a 2017 Dodge Caravan southbound on LA 23 near the intersection of Wall Blvd. For reasons still under investigation, Bonvilllain’s Caravan traveled off the roa
  
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• Summer may decide fate of leading shots in vaccine race

  28-06-2020 09:38 via wbrz.com
  
  People on six continents already are getting jabs in the arm as the race for a COVID-19 vaccine enters a defining summer, with even bigger studies poised to prove if any shot really works -- and maybe offer a reality check.Already British and Chinese researchers are chasing the coronavirus beyond their borders, testing potential vaccines in Brazil and the United Arab Emirates because there are too few new infections at home to get clear answers.The U.S. is set to open the larg
  
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