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$3500 reward in fatal poisoning of 2 bald eagles
killed NEW ORLEANS - Federal investigators say someone poisoned and killed two bald eagles in Thibodaux. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries are offering $3,500 for information leading to the conviction of whoever killed the national birds. Fish and Wildlife Service agent Sidney Charbonnet says the eagles were found in early April, about ...
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Boy 13 charged in wrestling death of girl 5
half brother NEW ORLEANS- A 13-year-old boy from a New Orleans suburb has been arrested after authorities say he told them he used TV wrestling moves on his 5-year-old half-sister, who died from the beating. Jefferson Parish sheriff's spokesman Col. John Fortunato says the boy was arrested Tuesday after a coroner's investigation found the girl died of multiple injuries, including ...
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200 gallons of gas spilled in Bossier Parish
Louisiana BENTON- Hazardous materials crews are on the scene of a gas spill in Bossier Parish. Lt. Bill Davis of the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office says it happened just before noon at an Exxon gas station on Highway 3 at Highway 162. KTBS-TV reports a motorist apparently hit a hose attached to a fuel truck and gas began to spew. Approximately 200 gallons of gas was spilled. ...
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Inning-by-Inning recap of LSU vs North Carolina
Omaha, NE (NBC33) - The LSU baseball team is facing #1 seed North Carolina right now in the College World Series. The loser will be eliminated from the tournament. LSU batting order: 1.McMullen 2.laird 3.Bregman 4.Katz 5.Rhymes 6.Ibarra 7.Ross 8.Jones 9.Stevenson Here is an inning-by-inning recap of the ...
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Judge dismisses lawsuit over Dixie Brewery building
demolition NEW ORLEANS - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Dixie Brewing Co. in an effort to stop any demolition of a brewery as part of the new VA hospital under construction in New Orleans. The Advocate reports the VA plans to demolish some parts of the German Romenesque building, which opened in 1907 but was crumbling even before Hurricane Katrina damaged it. Dixie ...
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The Scarlet Empress [DVD]
Josef von Sternberg's sixth of eight collaborations with screen siren Marlene Dietrich, The Scarlet Empress, is a dense, visually astounding portrait a woman evolving from an innocent, inexperienced, and idealistic girl to a shrewd, calculating empress who uses all the tools at her disposal, including her immense sexuality, to gain absolute power. ...
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Authorities looking for Lafayette armed robbery suspect
LAFAYETTE, La - The Lafayette Police Department is looking for a man that robbed a convenience store. On June 17 at around 10:25 p.m. police went to a store located in the 2300 block of Ambassador Caffery Parkway regarding an armed robbery. The employee there told officers that an unknown black male entered the convenience store armed with a handgun and demanded money from the cash ...
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Alaska feeling the heat nothing new in Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La. (NBC33) - While south Louisiana has basked in the heat and humidity for several weeks now, residents in southern Alaska are wiping their brows with record high temperatures in the 80s and 90s. A large, clear air-mass, sitting over southern Alaska, is to blame for heating things up in towns surrounding Anchorage, Alaska. On Monday afternoon, the towns of Talkeetna, Cordova, ...
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Last radio transmission reveals pilot knew he was going to crash Baker investigation continues
BAKER, LA (NBC33) - The cockpit voice recorder aboard the plane that crashed in Baker is being examined in Washington, DC, according to information provided in the preliminary investigation report. Reports note that pilot John Fowler did not have a flight plan for his trip on Friday, June 7 from the Baton Rouge Airport to McComb, Mississippi. His last transmission to the tower at BTR stated ...
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Major pipeline explodes in Louisiana
Blast at Louisiana chemical plant kills one, injures dozens A major natural gas pipeline exploded on Tuesday in Washington Parish, La., destroying a mobile home and causing an evacuation of the area but no injuries were reported, local officials said. The blast on the Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) pipeline, which transports gas from Texas to south Florida, sent a mushroom cloud into the sky ...
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I-10 widening project officially completed
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Some drivers have already been enjoying the widened stretch along I-10 between Highland Road and Siegen Lane for the past couple days. A ribbon cutting Tuesday morning made the completion of the project official. City leaders joined the Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) for a ceremony celebrating the completion of the six-lane, $60 million ...