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  • BREC urges parents to sign up for summer camp while spots remain available

    East Baton Rouge Parish, La - BREC is the premier summer camp operator in East Baton Rouge Parish, offering 41 high quality recreation and specialty camps. Since registration began last month, spots are filling up quickly and BREC is urging parents to sign up their children now and not wait until the last minute. "We know that BREC summer camps continue to be a family tradition in East ...

  • Couple arrested on drug charges

    GONZALES, LA (WAFB) - A Gonzales couple was arrested Friday on a long list of drug-related charges.Kenneth "Killer" Wagner, 23, and Povial Ward, 22, were taken into custody after a search warrant was executed at their home on S. Sammy St.Deputies say the couple's two small children were present during the search, but were released to proper authorities.Investigators say they ...

  • People D.A. react to Chiefs statement on beating

    summons BATON ROUGE- Reaction is mixed after the city's top cop released a statement concerning the attack on a family in the northern part of town. Police Chief Carl Dabadie said there were serious errors in judgment after a husband, wife, and their daughter were beaten at a gas station on Mother's Day. "It's something I feel sorry about. I hate to see," said Joe ...

  • Donaldsonville gets a new logo

    marketing DONALDSONVILLE, La. - The new logo for the city of Donaldsonville features images that represent its past and hopes for its future. The Advocate reports the logo was developed under the auspices of the nonprofit Louisiana Development Ready Cities as part of a wider marketing effort for the Ascension Parish city. It features the city's founding year of 1806 and images of the ...

  • Shell Shocked documentary panel explores solution to violence during Dalai Lama conference

    NEW ORLEANS, LA (NBC33) - A week after a senseless shooting injured 20 people on Mother’s Day, the conveyor of peace, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, arrived in the Crescent City with his message of hope. Several conference events and discussions revolve around that message. On the first day of the conference, one discussion was led by a group of documentarians who produced "Shell ...


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Last Summer

Last Summer

So many films about adolescents are vapid, banal affairs, treating their subjects either as dull, cardboard cutouts with no emotions, or gross caricatures of unappealing stereotypes. Somewhere along the line a mentality developed that adolescents are unimportant, and their lives are shallow and u ... ...

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  • Bodies removed from funeral home after waiting families complain

    MODESTO, CA (KCRA/CNN) - Sheriff's deputies raided a funeral home Friday, removing 17 of the bodies. Family members complained it was taking too long for the bodies to be cremated. Acting on numerous complaints, authorities took the bodies to the county coroner's office. Families are being forced to make other arrangements. It's not clear how long the bodies had been at the ...

  • Two dead in separate shootings in N.O.

    Police are investigating two fatal shootings that left a 37-year-old man dead in Central City and a 20 -year-old man dead in the Florida ...

  • Dave James set to play in EBR Parish Libraries

    BATON ROUGE, LA - Do you like live music? If that’s your thing, you’ll enjoy hearing professional guitarist, singer-songwriter and educator, Dave James play jazz, blues, country, rock and everything in between at the library on Monday, June 17 through Wednesday, June 19. James has been working with young audiences for the past four years, and has performed with a number of ...

  • New Orleans says gunfire wont end second lines

    Two brothers with a history of drug arrests and suspected ties to a neighborhood gang each face 20 counts of attempted second-degree murder in a shooting spree that brought a sudden bloody end to a Mother's Day parade in a New Orleans ...

  • Trained Assassins new Louisiana reality show

    The reality TV bug bites Louisiana residents again. This time it's a show that will feature a group of hunters from the Baton Rouge area. "Trained Assassins" follows a group of cross bow hunters from Louisiana ...

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