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  • Louisiana revokes companys explosives license

    JACKSON, Miss. - An explosives recycling company that authorities said improperly stored millions of pounds of a military propellant, causing the evacuation of a Louisiana town last year, was stripped of its state explosives licenses on Monday.Louisiana State Police spokeswoman Julie Lewis said Explo System Inc.'s state explosives licenses will remain revoked "pending the adjudication ...

  • Broadmoor residents discuss crime camera initiative

    "Our car broken into three times in the last year, and as recently as last week somebody came in and took the headlight right out of my wife's Volkswagen," Broadmoor resident Jeff Gardner ...

  • Audit finds workers stole for Jefferson Parish schools

    "I just don't understand how someone could steal money from kids, especially from the school that really needs it," said Christiana Compton, who has two children who attended Jefferson Elementary ...

  • Officials 6 killed in OKC tornado

    A powerful tornado blasted an area outside of city on Monday, ripping roofs off buildings, leveling homes and leaving a massive band of destruction in its ...

  • Video shows tornado forming in Oklahoma

    A powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City on Monday, ripping roofs off buildings, leveling homes and leaving a massive band of destruction in its ...


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Movie Review

Shakespeare in Love [DVD]

"Shakespeare in Love" is a romantic fictionalization of how the great poet and playwright William Shakespeare penned one of his most famous plays, "Romeo and Juliet." As Tom Stoppard, one of the film's screenwriters, said, "To create something of that magnitude, he was no doubt hopelessly and desperately in love with a very, very special woman." The woman in question for whom Shakespeare's torches ... ...

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  • Massive tornado slams Oklahoma City area

    A powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City on Monday, ripping roofs off buildings, leveling homes and leaving a massive band of destruction in its ...

  • It’s a great time to be a sports fan in New Orleans

    Two major sports facilities are coming out of the ground in metro New Orleans that are game changers. Construction is fully underway in uptown on Tulane’s campus and out in Metairie at the Saints training facility. The Green Wave has started building their own on-campus football stadium. The $60 million project will bring college football back to uptown for the first time since 1974. ...

  • Right lane of westbound US 61 periodically closes this week

    The right lane of westbound U.S. Highway 61 is slated to close between Labarre and Transcontental drives as part of a $2 million project to overlay ...

  • Tornado tears through Oklahoma City suburb

    The National Weather Service issued a rare tornado emergency for the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, meaning that significant and widespread damage and fatalities were ...

  • Veterans Boulevard on-ramp to I-10 East to close Tuesday

    The Veterans Boulevard on-ramp to I-10 East will be closed May 21 from 9:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. while crews move pile-driving equipment to prepare for noise wall ...

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