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• Tangipahoa Parish man killed in single vehicle crash on LA 443

  02-10-2016 21:52 via wbrz.com
  
  LORANGER – State Police say one man is dead after a Sunday morning crashing in Tangipahoa Parish.The single vehicle crash happened on LA 443 near Lanier Road in Loranger, La. Louisiana State Police said 69-year-old Alfred F. Dykes was killed in the single vehicle crash.Dykes was reported as a missing person Saturday after not returning from routine errands. Police are still trying to determine when the crash happened.Investigators say Dykes’ van ran off the roadway at a curve
  
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• NBA star, Ohio native LeBron James backs Clinton

  02-10-2016 20:58 via wbrz.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Basketball star and Ohio native LeBron James is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.James says Clinton is a "champion for children and their futures." He also says Clinton is running on a message of "hope and unity" that is needed to address violence in black communities.The Cleveland Cavaliers star cast a vote for Clinton as a way to build on the legacy of President Barack Obama.James detailed his support for Clinton in an op-ed in Business Insider and the Akron Beacon
  
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• New Orleans Police: 3 pedestrians killed in tow truck crash

  02-10-2016 20:55 via wbrz.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS - The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a crash involving a tow truck that left three people dead and two others injured.WWL-TV reports the wreck happened Sunday just before 5 p.m. at a Mid-City intersection.Authorities say a tow truck was traveling southbound when it left the roadway and hit four pedestrians. Police say the tow truck then drove through a fence into the parking lot of a shopping center, where it hit several parked vehicles.Two of the pedestrians were pro
  
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• Tesla's 3Q deliveries more than double

  02-10-2016 16:42 via wbrz.com
  
  NEW YORK - Electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors Inc. says global deliveries of its cars more than doubled in the third quarter to 24,500 compared to a year ago.The company said about 15,800 Model S and 8,700 Model X sport-utility vehicles were delivered to customers in the latest quarter. In addition, about 5,500 vehicles were in transit to customers, but they won't be counted as deliveries until the fourth quarter.The announcement was encouraging for the Palo Alto, California-based company, whic
  
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• 52 confirmed dead in stampede at Ethiopia religious event

  02-10-2016 14:51 via wbrz.com
  
  BISHOFTU, Ethiopia - A regional government in Ethiopia has confirmed that 52 people have been killed in a stampede after police tried to disperse an anti-government protest at a massive religious festival.The Oromia regional government confirmed the death toll late Sunday.The government is also declaring three days of national mourning.The stampede occurred in one of the East African country's most politically sensitive regions, Oromia. It has seen months of sometimes deadly demonstrations deman
  
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• E-cigarette explosion injures girl at Orlando theme park

  02-10-2016 14:45 via wbrz.com
  
  ORLANDO - Police say a teenage girl riding a Universal Orlando amusement park ride suffered burns when an electronic cigarette belonging to another rider exploded and shot a fireball at her.Police told the Orlando Sentinel the 14-year-old from Tennessee was riding the Hogwarts Express train Saturday with her family when an e-cigarette belonging to a rider in another group blew up in his pocket and the fireball hit her in the face and elsewhere.Lt. Dan Brady said the explosion wasn't big, but sca
  
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• Natchez needs more firefighters to keep insurance rating

  02-10-2016 14:33 via wbrz.com
  
  NATCHEZ, Miss. - The City of Natchez must hire more firefighters to avoid a drop in its fire insurance rating.The Natchez Democrat reports that the Mississippi State Rating Bureau notified the city last month that the city's fire protection no longer warrants its current rating: five on a scale of one to 10.When ratings drop, residents' insurance rates can go up.A tight city budget has prevented the hiring of all the needed firefighters so far.Mayor Darryl Grennell plans to schedule a meeting in
  
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• Bobby Smith, trooper blinded in 1986 shooting, dies

  02-10-2016 14:31 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE - Bobby Smith, the Louisiana State Trooper blinded in a 1989 shooting, has died.Louisiana State Police announced Smith's death Sunday morning."Words are inadequate to describe the life, the love and character of Bobby," a post on LSP's Facebook page read. "In the 80's, Bobby was shot in the face by an assailant on a traffic stop. He lost his sight, his career and his marriage. Never one to succumb to adversity, Bobby earned a PhD, authored books and set out on a path of helping other
  
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• Giuliani says Trump better for US 'than a woman'

  02-10-2016 14:21 via wbrz.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Did Rudy Giuliani really mean to say Donald Trump would make a better president than Hillary Clinton because he's a man?The former New York mayor told ABC's "This Week" that Trump was a "genius" for maneuvering around tax laws, unlike Clinton who was investigated by the FBI for using a private email server.He said: "Don't you think a man who has this kind of economic genius is a lot better for the United States than a woman, and the only thing she's ever produced is a lot o
  
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• Christie says Trump a 'genius' if avoiding taxes

  02-10-2016 14:14 via wbrz.com
  
  WASHINGTON  - Chris Christie says a new report showing Donald Trump's business losses in 1995 may have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for years is a "very good story" for Trump."The New Jersey governor said on "Fox News Sunday" that the New York Times story showcases "the genius of Donald Trump" because he has said he'd follow the law, would ease tax policy on working people and knows tax policy better than anyone.Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill retorted Sund
  
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• 'Miss Peregrine' bests 'Deepwater Horizon' at box office

  02-10-2016 13:52 via wbrz.com
  
  NEW YORK - Tim Burton's latest fantastical oddity, "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," debuted with a hefty $28.5 million, while Peter Berg's acclaimed disaster movie "Deepwater Horizon," about the 2010 oil rig explosion, failed to tap North American moviegoers.In a crowded autumn weekend at the box office, "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" came out on top. The 20th Century Fox release, adapted from Ransom Riggs' fantasy novel, cost $110 million to make, meaning it will ne
  
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• Trump's new DC hotel vandalized with spray-painted graffiti

  02-10-2016 13:32 via wbrz.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's new luxury hotel in downtown Washington has been vandalized.District of Columbia police say someone spray-painted the phrases "black lives matter" and "no justice no peace" on the front of the building on Saturday afternoon.On Sunday, the phrases were covered up with pieces of plywood.Police spokeswoman Aquita Brown said Sunday that police have not identified any suspects. The incident occurred just after 4 p.m. Saturday, and police are investigating.The Trump Interna
  
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• Court to hear suit against Deepwater Horizon spill activists

  02-10-2016 13:24 via wbrz.com
  
  BOSTON - Two environmental activists who were sued for defamation over an article they wrote about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are taking their case to the highest court in Massachusetts.Former teacher Karen Savage and single mother Cherri Foytlin were sued by a scientific consulting company after their article appeared in The Huffington Post. In the piece, the women questioned the independence of a company that published a study finding that the Gulf disaster did not expose cleanup workers
  
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• Explosion at cafe injures 90 at festival in southern Spain

  02-10-2016 13:17 via wbrz.com
  
  MADRID - Authorities say an explosion at a cafe in southern Spain has injured 90 people at a local festival, five of them seriously.The Saturday night explosion occurred at around 7 p.m. in Velez-Malaga, a small town neighboring Malaga, a popular tourist destination in Spain's southern Andalusia region. Authorities have not confirmed that a gas leak caused the explosion but said a leak may have caused glass on the cafe's windows and doors to explode.The Andalusia emergency service said 57 of the
  
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• Early morning fire causes significant damage to home

  02-10-2016 13:16 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE - A house fire occurred early Sunday morning after a gas can was left too close to a water heater, BRFD said.The fire occurred sometime before 8 a.m., when crews were sent to Bayberry Ave. to extinguish the blaze. The fire began in a utility room under the car port and spread into the living room of the home.BRFD said about $120,000 is estimated in total damage due to the fire. Four people were inside when fire started according to BRFD. All are expected to be safe.&nbsp
  
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• Man arrested for forcible rape in Baker

  02-10-2016 13:02 via wbrz.com
  
  BAKER - A man was arrested for domestic abuse battery and forcible rape on Saturday in Baker.The Baker Police Department responded to a domestic abuse battery complaint on Saturday at a home on Daniels Street. The victim stated that the defendant, 57-year-old David Janes, had physically touched her and was being aggressive. The victim stated that he had sexually force himself onto her and also said the actions had occurred over the course of two days, according to police records.The victim then
  
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• SC authorities identify 3 killed in possible murder-suicide

  02-10-2016 12:49 via wbrz.com
  
  BUCKSPORT, S.C. - South Carolina authorities have identified the two adults and the 10-month-old baby killed in a possible murder-suicide.Chief Deputy Coroner Tamara Willard tells local media outlets that the three people found dead Saturday in a home in Bucksport are: 51-year-old Keith Davis; 40-year-old Kristina Burroughs; 10-month-old Justice Burroughs, who was Kristina Burroughs' niece.Lt. Raul E. Denis of the Horry County Police Department said a 2-year-old child found at the scene was take
  
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• US hemp farms take root under state pilot programs

  02-10-2016 12:46 via wbrz.com
  
  EATON, N.Y. - New York's first industrial hemp farm in decades is taking root under a pilot program that's part of a national resurgence of a plant used for everything from food to building materials but long banned along with its smokable cousin, marijuana.A trade group estimates the value of hemp products in the U.S. at $600 million. But that's based on imports because U.S. farmers weren't allowed to grow it until now.The 2014 Farm Bill allowed states to develop hemp pilot projects. Since then
  
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• UK prime minister says Britain will launch Brexit next year

  02-10-2016 12:44 via wbrz.com
  
  LONDON - U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May says Britain will trigger the formal process for leaving the European Union before the end of March 2017.May told the BBC on Sunday that Britain would trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty early next year, setting the nation on a course to leave the 28-nation trading bloc by 2019.The process can be extended beyond two years, if Britain and all other EU countries unanimously agree.May made the comments ahead of her speech on the so-called British exit or
  
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