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• Deputies asking for public's help with information about Kentwood homicide

  27-07-2024 20:39 via wbrz.com
  
  KENTWOOD - Deputies in Tangipahoa Parish are asking for information after a Mississippi man was found shot to death in his car Saturday morning. The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office said someone found 43-year-old Edward Robertson from Magnolia, Miss., found slumped over his steering wheel around 8:30 a.m. Deputies said Robertson's car was sitting idle in the middle of Brab Alford Lane and glass was scattered on the roadway. The sheriff's office asks that anyone who has infor
  
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• Church gives away 100 backpacks full of school supplies at back-to-school bash

  27-07-2024 19:43 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE - More than 100 backpacks filled with school supplies were given out during the Crusade Christian Center's back-to-school bash Saturday afternoon.Pastor Jed Brumfield and his wife Sha'Myra said they hosted the event at BREC's Narin Drive Park to give kids what they need to start school and bring the community together."It was a vision that God gave me to basically give back to the community and for us to serve the people," Sha'Myra Brumfield said.Pastor Brumfield said there needs to
  
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• Three Ponchatoula teenagers arrested for animal cruelty after 2023 video surfaces online

  27-07-2024 18:43 via wbrz.com
  
  PONCHATOULA - Three teenagers from Ponchatoula were arrested on animal cruelty charges Saturday after a video taken in 2023 was shared multiple times on social media. The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office said they were alerted to the situation by a video that was posted recently and shared more than 1,500 times. It shows a man and a dog in the middle of a pond. When the dog starts swimming toward the bank, the person ignites the dog's shock collar. After the dog stops moving and refu
  
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• Beach volleyball fans gather to watch former LSU duo's first Olympic match at court they trained on

  27-07-2024 17:57 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE - The former LSU beach volleyball duo Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss put on quite the show in their Olympic debut Saturday, sweeping their match against Canada's Bansley and Bukovec. Nearly 5,000 miles away in Baton Rouge, fans gathered for a watch party at Mango's — a beach volleyball spot on Bricksome Avenue where the pair trained all summer. Mango's owners Tina and Tim Bourgeois said they remember when Kloth and Nuss first began playing there."T
  
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• Gonzales students receive free school supplies and uniforms ahead of upcoming school year

  27-07-2024 16:31 via wbrz.com
  
  GONZALES - Students enjoyed music, splash pads, snow-balls and free school supplies Saturday at the Ascension 4 Youth Fest Back to School Bash.Oxy Petroleum sponsored the event and provided kids with backpacks, supplies and uniforms — all for free.Council member Chase Melancon, who also works with Oxy, says they gave out 500 backpacks last year, and this school year it's doubled. “We’re giving away a 1,000 school backpacks, with school supplies in it, alon
  
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• Bangladeshi Students' Alliance rallies at Louisiana state capitol Friday night

  27-07-2024 15:11 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE - A few dozen people in Baton Rouge rallied at the state capitol Friday night hoping to raise awareness after more than 100 students in Bangladesh were injured and killed by law enforcement.The students in Bangladesh were advocating for a more merit-based, fair recruitment process for public sector jobs.The Bangladeshi Students' Alliance believes peaceful protests will help raise awareness and shed light on the problem.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Justice Department says TikTok collected US user views on issues like abortion and gun control

  27-07-2024 13:05 via wbrz.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a fresh broadside against one of the world’s most popular technology companies, the Justice Department is accusing TikTok of harnessing the capability to gather bulk information on users based on views on divisive social issues like gun control, abortion and religion.Government lawyers wrote in documents filed late Friday to the federal appeals court in Washington that TikTok and its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance used an internal web-suite syste
  
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• Damages to college athletes to range from a few dollars to more than a million under settlement

  27-07-2024 13:01 via wbrz.com
  
  Thousands of former college athletes will be eligible for payments ranging from a few dollars to more than a million under the $2.78 billion antitrust settlement agreed to by the NCAA and five power conferences, a deal that also paves the way for schools to directly compensate athletes while attempting regulate payments from boosters.Details of the sprawling plan were filed Friday in federal court in the Northern District of California, a little more than two months after the framework
  
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• Iberville Parish principal named Louisiana Principal of the Year

  27-07-2024 12:09 via wbrz.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS - An Iberville Parish principal was named as Louisiana's Principal of the Year on Saturday night. The award went to Dr. Amanda Austin, who leads MSA East Academy in St. Gabriel. The magnet K-12 school is specializes in math, science and art.Dr. Austin accepted her award at the 18th Annual Cecil J. Picard Educator Excellence Awards Gala, which was held at the World War II Museum in New Orleans. She was selected out of nine finalists, which included the principal of Central C
  
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• Iberville Parish principal, early education leader receive statewide honors

  27-07-2024 12:09 via wbrz.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS - Two educators from Iberville Parish were honored with statewide awards during a ceremony Saturday night. The Principal of the Year award went to Dr. Amanda Austin, who leads MSA East Academy in St. Gabriel. The magnet K-12 school is specializes in math, science and art.Dr. Austin accepted her award at the 18th Annual Cecil J. Picard Educator Excellence Awards Gala, which was held at the World War II Museum in New Orleans. She was selected out of nine finalists, which incl
  
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