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BR firefighters fill the boot for MDA at Siegen intersection

Baton Rouge, La - On Saturday, May 25, members of the St. George Fire Department are taking off their boots and hitting the streets to collect donations for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, an organization that provides health care and support for families, children and adults living with neuromuscular disease. Firefighters will be taking donations for the cause at the intersection of ...
More opportunities to tour St. Jude Dream Home

Dream Home Tour BATON ROUGE- Saturday and Sunday, the 2013 St. Jude Dream Home will be open for tours. Browse through the house, located in Carriagewood Estates, and see some of the latest in home design. You can also buy a chance at winning the house. Raffle tickets cost $100 and benefit the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. A winner will be selected June 15th on WBRZ Channel ...
Lamar bats force Saturday rematch with Lions

From SLU Athletics SUGAR LAND, Texas – Lamar rode the momentum of a Friday afternoon win to a 12-2, run-rule victory in seven innings over Southeastern Louisiana later Friday evening at Constellation Field in the 2013 Southland Conference Tournament. Southeastern (35-23) scored a run in the first inning to take a 1-0 lead and scored a single run in the third to tie the game, 2-2, ...
Tigers rally over Bama to advance in SEC Tourney

HOOVER, AL (WAFB) - Friday afternoon's elimination game was a bit of deja vu with No. 2 LSU (50-9) and Alabama (34-26) colliding once again. Even more so when the Tigers won 3-2 to knock the Tide out of the SEC Tournament. The Tigers got the early 1-0 lead with an RBI triple by Tyler Moore in the top of the third. LSU loaded the bases the next inning but could not capitalize. ...
People pay delinquent city bills after News 2 investigation

ascension SORRENTO- Leaders said a number of people showed-up at city hall to pay delinquent water, sewer, trash, and other city costs after ...

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Movie Review

A Simple Plan

Sam Raimi's masterful thriller "A Simple Plan" is built on a great "what if" situation: What if you and a couple of friends were walking through the woods and found $4 million? Would you turn in it to the police? Or, would you and your friends keep the money and split it amongst yourselves? It looks like the money is from drug dealers ... no one saw you in the woods ... nothing could go wrong, rig ... ...

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Police report 80-year-old driver took man on wild ride

Coursey Blvd. BATON ROUGE- The driver of a pick-up truck that drove with a man on the hood of his vehicle for miles last weekend has been identified. Cell phone video, posted online, made the incident ...
Crash slows traffic around BR ahead of busy travel weekend

emergency BATON ROUGE- The evening drive on area streets and interstates was a mess, mainly due to an overturned car on I-12 East near Millerville. Friday, a vehicle flipped multiple times around 7 p.m. Multiple lanes were closed on I-12 causing back-ups elsewhere. Shortly after 9 o'clock, authorities were able to open lanes. One person in the flipped vehicle was taken to the ...
Walker church looking for answers after burglary

WALKER, LA (NBC33) - A Walker church is looking for answers after the church was broken into Wednesday night. Randy Powell, Minister of Education at Walker Baptist Church, received some bad news thursday morning. "I was a little agitated and a little distressed, we came up here and Walker Police Department was already at the scene, so we just helped them with the investigation," ...
Former wife of pharmacy robbery suspect arrested

The car believed to be used in the robbery of a Brusly pharmacy has been found in Baton Rouge.Brusly Police Chief Jamie Whaley says the vehicle was found behind an apartment complex.The car is being ...
Deputies investigate murder near Clinton

deputies CLINTON- Deputies in East Feliciana are working a murder outside of town a department official told WBRZ News 2. Deputies confirmed that one person was dead at a house on Highway 10, about six miles east of town, and that a second person is in the hospital related to the shooting. Deputies said the investigation is just beginning and expect to release more information later. ...

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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.

Barack Obama

The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.

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Wyndham New Orleans at Canal Place

On arrival at this hotel the thing that struck us most was the location. It was just meters from the ...

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19 injured in New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting

Gunmen fired shots during an informal Mother's Day afternoon parade in New Orleans in Louisiana state injuring 19 people, two of them children, according to police.

The wounded in Sunday afternoon's shooting in the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana, governed by Indian-American Bobby Jindal, included 10 men and seven women as well as a boy and a girl, both 10.

Local Nola.com citing police said both the 10-year-old victims had graze wounds to the body and were in good condition. A man and a woman were reported to be in surgery Sunday evening.

Immediately after the shooting on Frenchmen Street police reported seeing three suspects running from the scene.

Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said the three gunmen likely worked together, and at least two different weapons were used. One of the suspects is described as a man between 18 and 22 years old with short hair and wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, Serpas said.

Many of the victims were grazed, some by bullets that ricocheted. "At this point, there are no fatalities, and most of the wounds are not life-threatening," Nola.com cited spokesperson Remi Braden as saying in an email.

"But all medical conditions are not known at this time as victims were rushed to nearby hospitals," Braden said. ...