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Shaw founder sued for using name Shaw

Jim Bernhard BATON ROUGE- The Shaw Group, now part of CB&I since a buyout recently, is suing founder Jim Bernhard and others, accusing them of using the company's name. Bernhard and the three partners are being sued in an effort to stop them from using the name "Shaw" in two business ventures. According to court documents obtained by WBRZ News 2, Shaw Capital LLC and ...
Plant worker remembered for loyalty helping others

Chuck Montero DONALDSONVILLE - A man killed in a chemical plant accident last week, will live on, in the form of life-saving technology. Ronald "Rocky" Morris died Friday evening at CF Industries, when a pipe carrying nitrogen, ruptured. He'd been at the job for over three decades, as part of the plant's rescue team. Family and friends of Morris say his job, wasn't ...
Hammond man arrested after stealing two AC units

Hammond, La - A man has been placed under arrest in conjunction with the robbery of two air condition units in Hammond. Johnny Williams Jr., 34, was arrested yesterday after being positively identified as the suspect in a burglary. Earlier that day, witnesses observed Williams steal two air-condition units from an apartment complex on Quick Blvd. When deputies made contact with Williams, ...
Civil service board to approve BRPDs police chief test scores

Louisiana State Police reports I-10 East is closed at Whiskey Bay on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge due to multiple crashes. Traffic on I-10 East is being diverted onto I-49 North.Drivers trying to get ...
BRAVE looking to expand into 70802 zip code

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - The program to reduce crime in East Baton Rouge Parish is set to take on another zip code racked with trouble. Almost one year after the Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination project, or BRAVE, enforcement officers took to the 70805 zip code, they're now looking to take on more. "My cousin got shot right around that corner some years back over an incident ...

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French Connection II [Blu-Ray]

At the beginning of John Frankenheimers French Connection II, the title card rushes at us from the depths of the screen just as it did in William Friedkins unexpectedly gritty, genre-twisting 1971 Oscar-winner, suggesting that the film to come will barrel toward us ... ...

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UNC eliminates LSU baseball from CWS 4-2

From LSU Sports OMAHA, Neb. – North Carolina pitcher Trent Thornton limited top-ranked LSU to two runs over seven innings and a comeback bid came up short as the Tar Heels eliminated the Tigers from the College World Series by a score of 4-2 on Tuesday afternoon at TD Ameritrade Park. LSU (57-11) concluded a memorable season, tying the school and Southeastern Conference record for ...
NO police officer fired for violating policies

check NEW ORLEANS - A New Orleans Police officer has been fired for violating the department's policy on moral conduct. In a news release, officials said Jeremy Wilcox was dismissed Tuesday. Wilcox was pulled over last July by a St. John the Baptist Parish sheriff's deputy for driving a truck with no license plate. A check of his driver's license found there was an outstanding ...
Two men arrested on multiple armed robbery charges

St. Tammany Parish, La - Two men have been taken into custody after their involvement in two separate armed robberies. On June 13, Regis Chatman, 21, turned himself in to detectives at the Sheriff’s Covington office. During his interview with detectives, Chatman admitted to his involvement in the Abita Nursery robbery as well as a previous armed robbery in which he and Jammal Calloway, ...
Eleven-year-old dies from injuries sustained in June 15 crash

St. Landry Parish, La - Troopers with Louisiana State Police Troop I learned that an 11-year-old girl from Leonville died from injuries she sustained in a Saturday crash. According to investigating Troopers, on June 15, 2013, at 8:22 p.m., a 16-year-old male was driving a 2004 GMC Sierra west on US Highway 190 west of Port Barre. A 1998 Mercury Sable, driven by 44-year-old Debra Trahan of ...
BESE approves $2M for Course Choice program

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The state education board is on track to spend $2 million from an oil and gas trust fund for a pilot program to expand online high school course offerings to public school ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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One dead, 77 injured in US chemical plant blast

At least one person was killed and 77 injured in an explosion and fire at a petrochemical plant in Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal's home state of Louisiana in southern US.

"This has been a tragic incident," said Republican Jindal Thursday, during a briefing near the plant in Geismar, part of a heavily industrial region known as "Cancer Alley," between capital Baton Rouge and the state's biggest city, New Orleans.

Some environmental advocates cited by the Chicago Tribune said Thursday's explosion should draw attention to hazards in a region once known as "Bhopal on the bayou."

The Bhopal disaster in December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal in India, is considered the world's worst industrial disaster. Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals.

The corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is particularly dense with refineries and petrochemical plants, the Tribune said.

The surrounding region is the most prone in the nation to toxic oil spills and releases, according to US Environmental Protection Agency records.

Last year, the EPA region including Louisiana was second in the nation in toxic accident reports. ...