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  • Kenner school recalls recent tornado

    Just a month ago, a tornado touched down less than a half-mile from the Audubon Elementary School - forcing students to take cover. "It started out as a normal day, but within minutes, the weather quickly turned dangerous," said Principal Bernard Tassin. Tassin said on April 24 his staff worked quickly to ensure the school's 500-plus students were in a safe location as an EF-1 ...

  • I-Team Covington officers heard using racial slurs in patrol car

    A 2010 audio tape, obtained exclusively by the WDSU I-Team, is riling up members of the Greater Covington NAACP and African-American community on the ...

  • Oklahoma tornado cuts 17-mile path

    Search-and-rescue crews with dogs went through smashed houses and crushed cars on Tuesday, looking for signs of life a day after a monster tornado pulverized a vast swath of suburbs of Oklahoma ...

  • New Orleans Police ID Parade Shooting Suspect

    New Orleans police have identified Akein Scott as the alleged gunman in Sunday's Mother's Day parade shooting in the Big Easy. "We would like to remind the community and Akein Scott that the time has come for him to turn himself in," Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said of Scott, describing him as "no stranger to the criminal justice system." Officers say ...

  • New Orleans prays for Oklahoma

    A tornado struck just Moore, Oklahoma, south of Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, May 20, 2013, ripping apart homes and other buildings in populated areas. The National Weather Service issued a rare tornado emergency for the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, meaning that significant and widespread damage and fatalities were ...


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Movie Review

Return of the Fly [DVD]

Return of the Fly [DVD]

Although no one really expected it, The Fly (1958), a thriller in which a scientist accidentally mixes his atoms with those of a housefly, became a significant box office success during its theatrical release despite the already overwhelming number of horror and sci-fi flicks ... ...

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  • Students send messages of hope to Oklahoma

    "We are so sorry what happened to you. We will pray for you and hope you get well. You are in our hearts," said Adelaide Laurant as she read aloud from a card she ...

  • Police Nursing home employee stole residents jewelry sold to pawn shops

    Slidell police said they arrested a woman who stole jewelry and a digital camera from several elderly people at a nursing home and sold it to pawn ...

  • Weather service Okla. Tornado was EF5

    Search and rescue crews with dogs went through smashed houses and crushed cars on Tuesday, looking for signs of life in the aftermath of the monster tornado that pulverized a vast swath of Oklahoma City's ...

  • Indy poised to make 2018 bid for Super Bowl

    Less than an hour after the league announced San Francisco would host the 50th Super Bowl in 2016 and Houston would host the game in 2017, Indiana Sports Corp. president Allison Melangton told reporters she would ...

  • Chemical prompts bomb squad response at Jefferson County school

    The bomb squad from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is responding to West Jefferson Middle School on Tuesday afternoon.The sheriff's office reports that students were evacuated from the school, 9449 S. Barnes Ave., Conifer, after an unstable item was found in a chemistry lab.The evacuated students were gathered at the football field while the danger was assessed.The incident ...

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