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Saints to host special teams clinic for high school coaches

New Orleans, La - The New Orleans Saints will host a special teams clinic for high school coaches on Friday, May 31 at the team’s Metairie training facility on 5800 Airline Drive. The event will include a full day of classroom instruction by Saints Special Teams Coordinator Greg McMahon. Registration is only $20, which includes lunch and a New Orleans Saints cap. Registration begins ...
Baton Rouge Gallery’s Movies Music on the Lawn Opens 2013 Season today

Baton Rouge, La - Baton Rouge Gallery’s popular and inventive summer film series kicks off its 2013 season tonight with the Oscar-winning 2011 film, "The Artist." It will be set to a live, never-before-heard score for the film performed by jazz/funk fusion band Captain Green. The film will be shown on a towering inflatable screen on the lawn behind BRG inside BREC’s ...
Suspect identified in murder of AmeriCorps volunteer

NEW ORLEANS, LA (WWL) - Police have identified a suspect in the murder of Joseph Massenburg, an 18-year-old AmeriCorps volunteer from Chicago, killed in Carrollton. New Orleans police have obtained an arrest warrant for Glen Emerson, 18, who will be charged with second-degree murder once he is apprehended, said police. Massenburg was gunned down on April 1 in the 1500 block of Eagle ...
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 ...

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Movie Review

They Might Be Giants [DVD]

The title "They Might Be Giants" is a reference to Don Quixote and his battle with a series of windmills that he mistook for giants. The line is uttered by a retired judge named Justin Playfair (George C. Scott), who, even since his wife died, has believed that he is Sherlock Holmes. The line is uttered in the backseat of a taxicab, and were it not the title of the film, it might be a throwaway. ... ...

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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 ...
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 ...

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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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JW Marriott Ihilani Hotel Resort & Spa

This has to be one of the best hotel resorts in Hawaii. 387 luxurious guest rooms, each with it's own ...

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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. ...