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  • Okla. Medical examiner expects more bodies

    The vicious tornado that tore across central Oklahoma on Monday has killed at least 51 people -- with about 40 more bodies expected to arrive at the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office, Amy Elliott of the coroner's office said. The official death toll will gradually rise as the bodies are ...

  • Jefferson City doctor who received emergency suspension allowed back in medicine

    When a ferocious storm hit De Soto High School dead-on in 2003, no children were hurt, thanks in part to the efforts of two track coaches who ...

  • Help The Victims Of The Oklahoma Tornadoes

    A U.S. flag lays among debris in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013 following a tornado up to a mile wide which swept through the Oklahoma City ...

  • Delgado baseball team avoids Oklahoma tornado

    The Delgado baseball team was in Oklahoma competing for a shot to go to the Junior College World Series. Instead, they encountered a series of severe ...

  • Merging Could Secure The Future of Health Care in Jefferson Parish

    Representatives from East and West Jefferson hospitals say a merger with a bigger hospital system is the works. For that to happen the rules have to be changed in the form of House Bill 383. This legislation would amend the current law which would now allow elected official to determine the hospital's fatenot voters. House Bill 383 has made it through the house and is expected to ...


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Movie Review

The Cotton Club [DVD]

The Cotton Club [DVD]

Francis Ford Coppola was the most critically and commercially successful director of the 1970s. His achievements in that single decadeThe Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), and Apocalypse Now (1979), not to mention all the movies he produced and distributedwould be enough success to make an entire career. ...

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  • Did New Orleans exploit the Dalai Lama

    New Orleans did win the lottery by scoring a visit from one of the most influential people in the world! We were lucky enough to have the Dalai Lama in town for a few days. A picture on the city’s ...

  • Maine Street near Jefferson Highway

    One day we decided: ';We should do a story on all the potholes around New Orleans.'; And Pothole of the Day was born. Let us know if you have a pothole near you by sending us an e-mail: ...

  • State medical examiners office 37 killed in Oklahoma tornado death toll expected to rise

    May 20 Oklahoman staff tornadoes/storms gallery View photos of the May 20, 2013, tornado and severe weather damage 41 ...

  • Louisiana revokes companys explosives license

    JACKSON, Miss. - An explosives recycling company that authorities said improperly stored millions of pounds of a military propellant, causing the evacuation of a Louisiana town last year, was stripped of its state explosives licenses on Monday.Louisiana State Police spokeswoman Julie Lewis said Explo System Inc.'s state explosives licenses will remain revoked "pending the adjudication ...

  • Broadmoor residents discuss crime camera initiative

    "Our car broken into three times in the last year, and as recently as last week somebody came in and took the headlight right out of my wife's Volkswagen," Broadmoor resident Jeff Gardner ...

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