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  • Galvan meets deadline submits files

    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 ...

  • Warrant issued in connection with AmeriCorps volunteers murder

    The New Orleans Police Department said it is looking for Glen Emerson, who is also 18, in connection with the shooting that took the life of Joseph ...

  • How safe is that bridge youre driving over

    Like millions of other Americans, Dan and Sally Sligh packed up their vehicle and headed out for a Memorial Day weekend trip. As they crossed the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River outside Seattle, Washington, the bridge gave way and their pickup truck plunged into the frigid ...

  • Revised Copeland memorial for Lafreniere Park unveiled

    The new proposal includes a performance stage and a statue of the late restaurant magnate as part of a bricked plaza at the public park. The statue still features Copeland holding a box of the iconic fast food chicken that helped build his empire, but the entire project offers much more than the original statue-centric ...

  • Father son dead in suspected murder-suicide in River Ridge

    The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's office confirmed to WDSU that two people were found dead in a home in the 300 block of Celeste Avenue shortly after noon. The victims are a father and his teenage ...


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Movie Review

Tumbleweeds

"Tumbleweeds" is about the texture and uneven rhythm of life, chronicling the desperate plight of a single mother named Mary Jo, who is caught in an endless cycle of bad boyfriends, and how she and her daughter, Ava, her precocious and increasingly frustrated adolescent daughter, survive a migratory life of moving from town to town, destructive relationship to destructive relationship. ...

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  • New Orleans quirkiness gone overboard

    New Orleans is a quirky place. The land of open container laws and drive through daiquiri shops. The home of festival after festival, like this weekends Greek Fest. The party just goes on and on and on. But sometimes the quirkiness isn’t a good thing. Like in the French Quarter where some neighbors are protesting the possibility of a new establishment in a long-abandoned building. A New ...

  • Louisiana to push ahead with paying private firms to teach kids

    (Reuters) - Louisiana's schools chief vowed on Friday to push ahead with a plan to let students take classes from private firms and nonprofits at taxpayers' expense, despite a legal setback and objections from some ...

  • WDSU Second Harvest raise $55k for tornado relief

    Over two nights, WDSU and the Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana raised nearly $55,000 in donations to benefit victims of the tornadoes in Oklahoma. The effort was called "Help For Oklahoma," and was initiated by WDSU President and General Manager Joel Vilmenay and President and CEO Natalie Jayroe of the Second Harvest Food ...

  • Under scrutiny Bridge collapse spotlights problem that is widespread in La.

    The collapse of a Washington state bridge on Thursday is putting the spotlight on what some call a national problem, and studies show bridge safety is a serious concern in ...

  • Funeral held for 8-year-old tornado victim

    Some 300 mourners crowded inside Eagle Heights Baptist Church here Friday to pay their respects to an elementary school student killed when a tornado churned through nearby Moore, ...

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