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Texas Brine offers settlements for Assumption Parish sinkhole
Texas Brine says it has started extending settlement offers to Assumption Parish residents who have been under an evacuation order since August because of a 15-acre ...
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Court filing New jail in New Orleans wont fix old problems
Inmates' lawyers and the U.S. Justice Department say the current design of a $145 million jail under construction in New Orleans won't meet requirements of a reform agreement signed by Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin ...
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“The First 48″ to follow New Orleans Police homicide detectives
New Orleans Police Department detectives will soon be in your living room on A&E’s documentary style television show ';The First 48.'; They will be filming detectives as they solve murders in New Orleans for the next year. Episodes of ';The First 48″ with our homicide detectives will most likely begin to air late this ...
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Oklahoma principals recall day tornado hit
It was like any other day. If anything, it might have been a little better than usual -- with more deserved honors for the kids, more jokes and songs, more smiles. Even Mother Nature, after storms the previous day, seemed at first to cooperate as the sun shone ...
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Hosli reinstated at NOPD Others shifted
A New Orleans Police Department commander at the center of a controversial detail operation has been reinstated in full at the department, officials announced late ...
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End of Watch
David Ayers End of Watch is a potentially powerful story about the lethal daily grind of patrolling South Central Los Angeles that is wrecked by misguided aesthetics. Ayer, who grew up in South Central and is best known as the screenwriter of The Fast and the Furious (2001) ... ...
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Donations for Oklahoma top $20 million
The Red Cross has received more than $15 million in donations and pledges so far for the town of Moore, which was struck by a tornado Monday that killed 24, injured more than 300 and destroyed thousands of ...
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Galvan meets deadline submits files
The St. Tammany Parish coroner has gone to court in an attempt to quash a subpoena from the Office of the Louisiana Legislative Auditor and faces a looming deadline to comply with a second subpoena -- this one from the Office of the Louisiana Attorney General -- WDSU has ...
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Warrant issued in connection with AmeriCorps volunteers murder
The New Orleans Police Department said it is looking for Glen Emerson, who is also 18, in connection with the shooting that took the life of Joseph ...
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How safe is that bridge youre driving over
Like millions of other Americans, Dan and Sally Sligh packed up their vehicle and headed out for a Memorial Day weekend trip. As they crossed the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River outside Seattle, Washington, the bridge gave way and their pickup truck plunged into the frigid ...
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Revised Copeland memorial for Lafreniere Park unveiled
The new proposal includes a performance stage and a statue of the late restaurant magnate as part of a bricked plaza at the public park. The statue still features Copeland holding a box of the iconic fast food chicken that helped build his empire, but the entire project offers much more than the original statue-centric ...
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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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The Plaza, New York City
The Plaza had two entrances, both attended by a Concierge. On arrival my car was greeted enthusiastically with assistance with ...
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