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  • Woman survives I-59 car crash

    But that's what happened. The driver, a young woman described by authorities as being in her late teens or early 20s, survived. In fact, she was able to get out of the mangled Saturn on her own, with minor injuries -- largely because she was wearing a seat ...

  • Players hopeful luck strikes twice at West Mestairie store

    It's all a game of odds. Some people play just for a chance at winning. Others rely on their own system of numbers and rituals to cash in on their luck. One Metairie store saw huge crowds because of it's past brush with luck. "It went from $500 million to $600 million, so that's really making them come in more," said Briana Moran, a store clerk at the West Metaire Shell ...

  • Powerball mania Jackpot hits $600 million

    That's all it took for Mammie Hicks to plunk down money at a Riverside, Mo., convenience store for a chance at Saturday's record $600 million multistate Powerball ...

  • Citizens worry over new FEMA Flood Maps

    "Despite never having flooded before, building to specifications that FEMA gave us and even our own levees to further protect us FEMA has now decided we're a flood hazard area," said Robert ...

  • Canadian Press NewsAlert Oxbow wins the Preakness Stakes

    Lisa Scotti, of Baltimore, reads hhere program before the sixth race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike ...


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Movie Review

Daughters of Darkness (Les lèvres rouges) [Blu-Ray]

Daughters of Darkness (Les lèvres rouges) [Blu-Ray]

A purposefully difficult-to-classify hybrid of European art-film austerity and borderline campy erotic-horror excess, Harry Kmels Daughters of Darkness is one of the most effective of the revisionist vampire films that emerged all over the continent in the 1960s ... ...

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  • Concerned Citizens’ rally to recall Coroner Dr. Peter Galvan

    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 ...

  • New Orleans says gunfire at Mothers Day parade wont end citys second line tradition

    FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2011 file photo, a member of the Big 9 marching club plays trumpet in a second line commemorating the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. New Orleans officials and cultural advocates say the Mother’s Day parade shootings that left 20 people injured won’t spell the end of second-line parades, the local tradition that celebrates the city and ...

  • Slideshow Top 12 American Boomtowns

    Bloomberg Rankings sorted through U.S. Census data for metropolitan areas to rank those with the greatest population growth, then scored areas on growth in gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation. They combined the two scores and winnowed the list to regions with more than 1 million residents to find the top 12 American ...

  • Raw video Dalai Lama addresses Tulane graduates Saturday

    Latest Headlines A car has driven into a crowd at a parade in southwestern Virginia on Saturday, apparently injuring several people, The Associated Press ...

  • Report Car drives into Va. parade crowd

    The AP said it happened at about 2:30 p.m. during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival. The event celebrates the Appalachian Trail in Damascus, ...

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