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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 ...
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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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Man dies after crashing into trains tanker cars
Ouachita Parish, La - One man is dead and another one is injured after colliding with a train in Ouachita Parish. On June 18 at 5:35 p.m., State Troopers were sent a fatal crash that involved a train on Louisiana Highway 134 east of Louisiana Highway 139. The preliminary investigation revealed that a truck, driven by Jason Hensley, 22, of Lake Providence, was traveling east on Louisiana ...
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Purse snatcher drops spoils of crime picks up time behind bars after causing crash
LAFAYETTE, LA (NBC33) - An accused purse snatcher did not get the chance to benefit from the spoils of the crime before ended up behind bars. "The victim explained that the suspect was reentering the white vehicle when the purse was dropped outside of the passenger door," Cpl. Paul Mouton, Lafayette Police Department, explained. The suspect, Kellie Colomb, 23, allegedly grabbed the ...
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Attorney School board president will not face additional charges in deadly wreck
ALBANY, LA (WAFB) - Sherman Mack, the attorney for Livingston Parish School Board President Malcolm Sibley, says his client will not face any additional charges for his role in a wreck Saturday morning that killed a Mississippi man. Investigators with Louisiana State Police executed a warrant Monday morning to seize the truck owned by ...
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Louisiana Sheriffs discuss hurricane prep in New Orleans Wednesday
Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman hosted Wednesday's meeting. At a news conference, he discussed evacuation plans for his office's facilities and inmates in the Orleans Parish Prison. Also discussed were New Orleans' booking procedures for anyone arrested during or after an evacuation; and, coordination with neighboring sheriff's ...
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Seafood board oversight shifted to lt. governor
board BATON ROUGE - Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne has received new responsibilities from state lawmakers, giving him oversight of a board that promotes Louisiana seafood. Dardenne spoke to the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board on Wednesday about the change. While Dardenne said he didn't seek the new responsibility, he said the board will fit into his office, which is charged with ...