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  • Fletchers 2013 NBA mock draft

    WDSU sports anchor Fletcher Mackel thinks the rebuilding franchise will select 19-year-old Croatian small forward Dario Saric with their pick. Below is Fletcher 2013 NBA mock ...

  • Gun shop owner has plans for firearms university in Jefferson County

    Matt Gumersell has lofty plans to expand his gun shop business to another section of the county.There's no secret to his timing. Gun sales are booming, and in Jefferson County alone, more concealed-carry permits have been issued this year than all of last.Gumersell, the owner of Sovereign Arms in Arnold, has his eye on the grounds of a shuttered Catholic school in the Imperial area. He ...

  • Man burglarized several car dealerships Kenner police say

    , 49, confessed to committing numerous burglaries and thefts at car dealerships throughout the metropolitan area, according to a police news ...

  • WDSU Second Harvest raise $35k in one night to help Okla. recover

    WDSU and the Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana raised just under $35,000 in a Tuesday night drive to help victims of the Oklahoma ...

  • Pelicans get No. 6 pick in NBA draft lottery

    The New Orleans Pelicans have received the sixth overall pick in Tuesday night's NBA draft lottery, dropping a spot after finishing with the fifth-worst record in the league this past ...


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Poseidon

Poseidon

The disaster genre, specifically as formulated and perfected by producer/director Irwin Allen in the early 1970s, has to be one of the most masochistic of film genres. After all, its primary goal is to get the audience to sympathize with a group of ordinary people trying to survive extraordina ... ...

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  • Tornado among strongest storms to hit US

    The tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs this week ranks among the strongest storms ever to strike the United States, packing powerful winds that topped 200 ...

  • 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 ...

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