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BRPD looking for armed robbery suspect
POSTED: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 4:30pm UPDATED: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 4:34pm The Baton Rouge Police Department needs the public's help in located a fugitive wanted on robbery charges. Johndell Taylor is wanted for Armed Robbery. If you have information on the location of Taylor contact Crime Stoppers at 344-STOP(7867), text CS225 plus your message to CRIMES(274637) or ...
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Red Cross app offers hurricane preparedness tips
Baton Rouge, La (NBC33) - With hurricane season in full swing, it’s time to start thinking ahead and getting prepared at home. Red Cross has an app you can download to get information on how to prepare, as well as where to find help. This is also the busiest season for the organization, so our local chapter says it's always looking for volunteers. As for being ready, officials say ...
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Truck plunges into New River in Gonzales
According to our news partners at The Creole , The Gonzales Fire Department was on the scene of the one-vehicle accident today at New River Street and Coontrap Road. The Fire Department received the call shortly after noon today. "We arrived on scene and secured a wench cable onto a bulldozer that was being pulled by the truck on a trailer," sated Gonzales Fire Chief Tracey ...
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Prairieville man arrested on child pornography charges
The search for a missing 10-month-old boy from Birmingham is over. Birmingham police say he and his alleged captor were found in Dallas, Texas around 11:30 Tuesday night. A missing child alert was ...
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Louisiana teen charged with killing girl with TV wrestling moves
(Reuters) - A 13-year-old boy has been charged with murder in New Orleans after causing the death of his 5-year-old half-sister using wrestling moves he had seen on television, police ...
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The Jane Austen Book Club
While it certainly helps to be familiar with the works of Jane Austen and to be able to distinguish between, say, Elizabeth Bennett and Marianne Dashwood, it is not a perquisite to enjoying screenwriter-turned-first-time-director Robin Swicord's romantic dramedy T ... ...
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Privatization backed for LSUs Bogalusa hospital
bogalusa medical center BATON ROUGE - The LSU Board of Supervisors has agreed to a contract privatizing its rural Bogalusa hospital in January. The Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, which operates four private hospitals in Louisiana, will take over management of LSU's Bogalusa Medical Center, effective Jan. 6. As with similar previous deals, the board signed off on the ...
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Woman wanted for firing gun causes a stir on social media investigators aware of comments
firing a gun during the middle of the day and shouting "I’ll kill all y'all " sparked some major discussion on the NBC33 Facebook page; primarily because the accused was the one doing much of the writing. "I don’t bother anybody, but I’m not gone let nobody bother me either," a post from Crystal Price reads. The comments from Price were in reaction ...
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Atlanta TV station severs ties with fired radio hosts station over Gleason skit
NEW ORLEANS, LA (WDSU-CNN) - After three Atlanta radio hosts aired a segment in which they mocked former Saint and ALS patient Steve Gleason, a network affiliate in Georgia has severed ties with the radio station. Not only were Nick Cellini, Steve "Steak" Shapiro and Chris Dimino fired from 790 The Zone, but their horribly unfunny skit lead CBS Atlanta to terminate its arrangement ...
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Family of seven survives fire that destroys duplex
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - A Baton Rouge couple and their five children are safe and are thankful they survived a fire that destroyed their home early Wednesday morning. The father was at work when the fire started and the mother jumped into action to get her children out of the house. The fire sparked at a duplex in the 700 block of Holt Drive in Baton Rouge shortly after 3 a.m. Holt is off ...
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Drunk driver asking for shorter sentence again
wreck BATON ROUGE - Attorneys for the Greensburg man who killed seven people in a drunken crash said they're going to ask a judge to reduce his sentence again. Brett Gerald pleaded guilty this past December to seven counts of vehicular homicide in the May 2012 wreck. He initially received a 70 year sentence, but in May a judge reduced that to 35 years to comply with a Supreme Court ...