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Waterspout causes damage near Grand Isle
injuries GRAND ISLE - A waterspout off the coast of Grand Isle created a big stir during storms this afternoon. The waterspout moved in from the bay side of the island around 3:45 p.m. today. The National Weather Service reported it blew a portion of a camp roof off, but didn't do any major damage. There were no reports of any ...
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State Police investigating if Sibley had passenger
43 ST. HELENA - Louisiana State Police are investigating if a passenger was riding with Malcolm Sibley when he crashed into a truck early Saturday morning. Cody Iasigi, 21, of Liberty, Miss., later died at a hospital from injuries sustained in the crash. Troopers said he and two others, Jarrett Wilson, 23, of Osyka, Miss. and Trey Bailey, 21, were parked and arguing on La. 43 just north of ...
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Ascension considers youth detention tax
millage GONZALES- The Ascension Parish Council will introduce a proposal Thursday evening at their regular meeting which would levy a one mil tax on homeowners in parish to raise funds for a juvenile detention center. The tax would raise about $900,000 a year and cost about $25 for a home worth $250,000. In the 1980s the State Legislature, authorized parishes to collect the millage without ...
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Appeal for reduced sentence outrages victims family
Tommy D'Amico BATON ROUGE- The attorney representing convicted killer Brett Gerald wants his sentence reduced. Tommy D'Amico is filing an appeal with the First Circuit Court of Appeals, calling his client's 35-year sentence for seven counts of vehicular homicide excessive. He believes Gerald's sentence for each count shouldn't run consecutively. "In Louisiana ...
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Lawsuits continue to pile up in deadly plant explosion
BATON ROUGE, La. (NBC33) - Lawsuits continue to pile up for the Williams Olifen plant less than a week after a deadly explosion at its Geimser plant. Vickie Polk said she remembers every detail of last Thursday Morning, when the Williams Olefin plant exploded. "As we were loading there was a big old blast, explosion, and the plant caught on fire. And then it was all black smoke coming ...
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M*A*S*H [DVD]
One of director Robert Altman's favorite ways of describing how M*A*S*H got into theaters is, "It wasn't released from 20th Century Fox ... it escaped." ...
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Tropical Storm Barry forms and heads to Mexico
BATON ROUGE, La. (NBC33) - Tropical Storm Barry is the second named storm of the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season. It formed in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday night. The Hurricane Hunters flew into Tropical Depression Two in the southern Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday and found that winds had strengthened enough to classify it as a tropical storm. As of Wednesday night, winds were sustained around 45 ...
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Zachary man indicted for fatal crash
State police say two separate crashes have left two people dead four others injured.The first crash happened just after midnight near the intersection of LA 67 and Noel Thomas Lane. Troopers say ...
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Woman faces eviction looking for homes for her 17 cats
A woman in French Settlement says she is being forced to get rid of some family members, 17 to be exact. After losing her job, she can't afford to take care of her cats anymore and on top of that, she's also being evicted from her home. She says she's more worried about finding her cats a place to live, than finding herself ...
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BESE to review student data storage and sharing
database BATON ROUGE - Louisiana's top education board is reviewing how the state education department stores and shares public school student data. The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education agreed Wednesday to create a task force looking at the issue after concerns were raised about a state data-sharing agreement with an outside organization. Superintendent of Education John ...
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Baton Rouge mother saved her five daughters from a house fire
early morning fire destroyed a family's home , but they survived. Now, the Baton Rouge mother tells us even though her house is gone, she is just happy her kids are safe. Sheron Mitchell said her first thought when she smelled the smoke was to get her five daughters out. They are all safe, but their entire house is destroyed. "By the time they made it, the whole house entire side ...