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  • Police investigate 3 slayings

    Police said a 37-year-old man was found shot several times in the area of Fourth and South Galvez streets just after midnight, and a 20-year-old man was found fatally shot and lying on the lawn of his home in the 5100 block of Congress Street about the same ...

  • Senate Bill in LegislatureAllison DeBattistaEpilepsy Foundation of Louisiana

    Anne Cutler talks to Allison DeBattista about the work of the Foundation and a bill in the current legislative session that impacts 1.2 million Louisiana residents covered by Medicaid. Epilepsy Foundation of ...

  • Police Search for Suspects in New Orleans Shooting

    Two children are among 19 people wounded after gunmen opened fire at a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans. Ten men, seven women and a 10-year-old boy and girl were shot. The children were only grazed and are listed in good condition. The shooting happened Sunday just before 2:00 p.m. a little more than a mile from the heart of the French Quarter. Cell phone video shows people treating the ...

  • Powerball jackpot closing in on another record

    (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki). Cathy Raymond, of Oklahoma City, displays the Powerball Lottery tickets she purchased in Oklahoma City, Friday, May 17, ...

  • Report N Korea fires short-range missiles

    North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as ...


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Movie Review

One False Move

The first ten minutes of "One False Move" feel like any other violent crime film, even bordering on entering the straight-to-video realm, which is ironic because the rest of the film is so sharp and original. In the opening segment, three criminals, Roy (Billy Bob Thornton), Pluto (Michael Beach), and Roy's girlfriend Fantasia (Cynda Williams) disrupt a birthday party by stabbing, shooting or suff ... ...

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  • Twister leaves two-mile path of damage near New Orleans

    TODAY's Al Roker gets us up to the minute with the latest weather updates, including a mulch fire in Prince George's County, Md., and damage to homes near New Orleans after two tornadoes touched down there ...

  • Feds to probe Connecticut train crash

    Federal transportation investigators will work to determine what caused two passenger trains to collide during rush hour in Connecticut, sending dozens to the ...

  • Louisiana Reserve Officer Arrested on Home Invasion Charge www.privateofficer.com

    A Breaux Bridge reserve police officer is in the Lafayette Parish Jail after he allegedly kicked in the door at his ex-girlfriend’s apartment. Forty-year-old Roland Shello, Jr., is charged with home invasion. The incident took place Wednesday night around 10:15 in the 300 block of Amesbury Drive. Police say Shello knocked on the door and was told to leave. That’s when they say he ...

  • OSHA impersonator sentenced in oil spill scam

    A woman has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for bilking Gulf Coast residents by posing as a federal safety official after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil ...

  • Residents petition to keep NORD center

    "For so many years that building has actually been something," said Dionne Lawson, a mother of two children. "When I was a kid, it was the Coogi Center, where we went and we ...

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