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  • Police search for missing New Orleans East teen

    New Orleans police said 15-year-old Shanna Rodgers was last seen about 10 p.m. Monday in her home in the 4600 block of Gabriel Drive. Rodgers' mother told officers she checked on her daughter, but she was not in her ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • COL BB North Carolina 4 Louisiana State 2

    Trent Thornton hurled seven efficient innings and Brian Holberton homered Tuesday in North Carolina's 4-2 College World Series win over Louisiana State. Thornton, a freshman, allowed two runs on nine hits and overcame four walks while Colin Moran chipped in with three hits, an RBI and two runs scored as the top-seeded Tar Heels eliminated LSU. With the victory, North Carolina advances to ...

  • Dead zones predicted for Gulf Chesapeake Bay

    NEW ORLEANS -- Scientists in Michigan and Louisiana are predicting a big summer "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico unless a tropical storm hits the area shortly before or during the annual measurement. In the Chesapeake Bay, scientists expect a smaller-than-average area where there's too little oxygen to support fish, shellfish and other aquatic life.The hypoxic zone in the Gulf ...


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Topsy-Turvy [Blu-Ray]

Topsy-Turvy [Blu-Ray]

Mike Leighs Topsy-Turvy is a visually sumptuous film about the last phase of the partnership between William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, the respective lyricist and composer who, from 1871 to 1896, wrote 14 operettas that ruled the London theater and are still among the mo ... ...

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  • Two more lanes opened on I-10

    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 ...

  • Inmate captured who walked away from work release program

    PONCHATOULA, LA (WAFB) - U.S. Marshals have captured an inmate who walked away from a work release program. According to reports, Tederick Bessie walked away from Elmer's Chocolate Factory in Ponchatoula around 6 a.m. Monday. He was captured just before 5 p.m. Tuesday by the U.S. Marshals Office. Bessie, 30, had been serving time for simple robbery. He was scheduled for release in ...

  • Residents worry about drainage on Eden Church Road

    DENHAM SPRINGS, LA (WAFB) - Engineers have a warning for Livingston Parish leaders about a potential problem with a newly-constructed road. The parish spent $2.2 million making Eden Church Road in Denham Springs safer, but another issue has surfaced. When construction on Eden Church Road got underway, residents like Terry Woodworth could hardly wait for the highway to open. "It was ...

  • Hope Academy gets cleaning as part of companys global week of service

    BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - The principal at a Baton Rouge school says they have no money for maintenance and barely have someone to change light bulbs. So, when a local company offered to help for no charge, they said bring it on. Around Hope Academy, on Jefferson Highway, there are people all over. Some are cutting grass, some cutting hedges and others asking where they can find more ...

  • Jindal signs bill allowing donations of fish game

    Gov. Bobby Jindal on Tuesday signed a bill by Keithville Sen. Sherri Buffington that allows for the donations. The legislation came after state health inspectors destroyed 1,600 pounds of deer meat donated by hunters to a homeless shelter in northwest ...

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