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  • Trombone Shorty comes home to New Orleans to rock Da Houz

    New Orleans ' newest super star was impressive. The weather was near perfect, at least by New Orleans' standards. A warm and humid 80 degrees, sunny, and almost no breeze to speak of. It was wonderful. There were two opening acts for the ...

  • Louisiana State Penitentiary officer arrested on narcotic charge www.privateofficer.com

    -- West Feliciana Parish sheriff's deputies arrested a Louisiana State Penitentiary security officer accused of trying to get narcotics through an Angola inmate, a spokesman for Sheriff J. Austin Daniel said Wednesday. Justin Darrel Nettles, 26, 160 Cedars Lane, Crosby, Miss., met a man he thought was a relative of the inmate, but the man actually was an undercover detective offering a ...

  • House fire sparked by lightning strike

    A lightning strike sparked a house fire on South Lakeside Oaks Dr. Thursday night. Several crews from the St. George Fire Department responded to the fire Thursday evening. The fire was contained to the attic of the house. We're told people were in the house at the time of the fire, but that everyone made it out ...

  • LSU falls into the losers bracket after 4-1 loss to Arkansas

    It was the premiere match-up of the tournament on Thursday afternoon as LSU's undefeated Aaron Nola and Arkansas stud Ryne Stanek duked it out on the mound, but in the end Arkansas out hit LSU 4-1. LSU (49-9) scored the first run of the game in the 3rd inning with a fielder's choice and a Razorback miscue at second base. Stanek was in a two out jam after walking the bases ...

  • Grandview grad Kevin Gausmans MLB debut spoiled as Blue Jays beat Orioles 12-6

    TORONTO-Edwin Encarnacion hit his fifth career grand slam, J.P. Arencibia homered and drove in four runs and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Baltimore 12-6 on Thursday night, spoiling the debut of Orioles right-hander Kevin Gausman. Brandon Morrow (2-3) allowed six runs and a season-high 10 hits in seven-plus innings. He walked one and struck out five. Brett Cecil and Brad Lincoln each worked one ...


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Rescue Dawn

Rescue Dawn

In Rescue Dawn, writer/director Werner Herzog returns to Dieter Dengler, the subject of his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly. The German-born Dengler, who was a U.S. Navy pilot in the mid-1960s, was shot down over Laos in 1966 on a reconnaissance mission and was c ... ...

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  • Disaster response team deployed to Oklahoma returns to Baton Rouge

    BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - The destruction in Oklahoma is much worse in person than what we see on television, that's according to one Baton Rouge man who's just returned from Moore. Chuck Smith is the commander of the region six D-MORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team). The region includes Louisiana and Oklahoma. He says Monday's tornado took almost the same path as ...

  • Jindal declares NWLA emergency due to wind damage

    BATON ROUGE - After last week's severe weather in Northwest Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal has declared a state of emergency for the area. The National Weather Service says a May 16 thunderstorm produced four tornadoes as it moved into Louisiana from Texas. Each twister had winds up to 100 mph. The storm also brought straight-line winds up to 105 mph to northern DeSoto and southern Caddo ...

  • Senate panel approves 2-cents tax on cell phones

    senate BATON ROUGE - A new 2-cents monthly tax on cell phones to help provide services for people with hearing impairment has been approved by the Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee. The House-backed bill would change the current law by reducing the amount of tax levied per month from 5 cents on landline phones to 2 cents and would broaden the tax to include wireless devices. ...

  • Baton Rouge lawyer sentenced to 27 months in prison

    BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Baton Rouge lawyer, James M. Bernhard III, was sentenced to 27 months in prison Thursday for wire fraud in connection with the theft of more than $453,000 from his former law firm's trust account. Bernhard pleaded guilty to the wire fraud charge and surrendered his law license shortly before he appeared for sentencing Thursday in Baton Rouge federal court. ...

  • Intersection of Louisiana Avenue and Hwy. 7 to be rebuilt in St. Louis Park

    The busy intersection of Louisiana Avenue and Hwy. 7 will become an interchange with on- and off-ramps. The city hopes it will spur ...

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