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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...


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  • 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 ...

  • Trains collide in Connecticut dozens hurt

    Two Metro-North passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour Friday evening in southwestern Connecticut, damaging both trains and leaving dozens injured -- some of them seriously -- authorities ...

  • Reports At least 20 injured in Conn. train collision

    At least 20 people were injured Friday when two trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour in Connecticut, according to CBS News, Fox News and ...

  • Family seeks help to find missing teacher

    "I'm not stopping. I will continue to come back every month if I have to until my baby is found," Enclade said. "I'm asking and I'm begging with the public to pleas help me find my ...

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