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• Eight of 14 dead in New Orleans attack identified thus far; here's what we know

  01-01-2025 13:23 via wbrz.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS — At least eight people, including two Baton Rouge men, a Lafayette native and a Mississippi teenager were confirmed dead among the 15 killed in an attack on pedestrians celebrating New Year's Eve along Bourbon Street.These are the known deaths as a result of the attack thus far:- Reggie Hunter, Baton Rouge
  - Kareem Badawi, Baton Rouge
  - Tiger Bech, Lafayette
  - Nikyra Dedaux, Gulfport, Mississippi
  - Matthew Tenedorio, Carierre, Mississippi
  - Nicole Perez, Metairie
  - Hubert
  
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• Biden traveling to New Orleans following the French Quarter attack that killed 14 and injured 30

  06-01-2025 15:17 via wbrz.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is taking a message to the grieving families of victims in the deadly New Year’s attack in New Orleans: “It takes time. You got to hang on.”Biden on Monday will visit the city where an Army veteran drove a truck into revelers in the French Quarter, killing 14 and injuring 30 more. It’s likely to be the last time Biden travels to the scene of a horrific crime as president to console families of victims. He ha
  
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• LSU baseball ranks No. 2 in preseason poll; Tigers playing 19 games against Top 25 opponents

  06-01-2025 15:08 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE — LSU baseball is ranked No. 2 in the nation ahead of the season's February start, a Perfect Game USA preseason poll said Monday.Texas A&M is No. 1 in the poll, followed by LSU, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida State, Texas, Clemson, Duke and Oregon State to round out the Top 10. Other SEC teams appearing in the Perfect Game Top 25 are No. 11 Florida, No. 13 Arkansas, No. 15 Vanderbilt, No. 20 Oklahoma and No. 22 Auburn.LSU's schedule has 19 games during the regul
  
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• TEAM 2 TRAFFIC: Eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 are closed before La. 415 due to tractor-trailer crash

  06-01-2025 14:59 via wbrz.com
  
  GROSSE TETE — Eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 are closed before La. 415 near Grosse Tete.The congestion, approaching two miles, is due to a tractor-trailer accident.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Two teens arrested for Loranger home invasion, assisting in May escape of Tangipahoa Parish inmate

  06-01-2025 14:34 via wbrz.com
  
  LORANGER — Two teens were arrested in connection to a November home invasion in Loranger and assisting in the May escape of a parish jail inmate, Tangipahoa Parish deputies said Monday.Deputies said they were called to a Loranger home on Nov. 27. Two juveniles were in the house at the time, but were able to hide in a closet, deputies said.Deputies were quickly able to locate two suspects, Christopher Robinson and Tycorey Marshall, both 17, in the area and arrested them on Nov. 27. The
  
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• Louisiana man who contracted strain of bird flu has died, state Health Department says

  06-01-2025 14:33 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE — The state Health Department said Monday that a Louisiana man hospitalized with the first human case of a highly pathogenic avian influenza in the United States has died.The agency said the patient was over age of 65 and had underlying medical conditions. The patient contracted H5N1 after exposure to a combination of a non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds, the Health Department had said previously.Health officials say they have not seen other bird flu cases or any
  
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• Deputies release identity, charges of man accused of being drunk when he ran into bicyclist

  06-01-2025 14:06 via wbrz.com
  
  HOLDEN - Deputies on Monday released the identity of a man accused of a hit-and-run crash that injured a bicyclist on Sunday. Eric Watkins was booked by the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office after a Sunday evening crash near the corner of George White Road and Lake Ora Drive in Holden.Watkins is accused of driving his car into the bicyclist and leaving them on the side of the road. Deputies later found the vehicle and arrested Watkins on negligent vehicular injury, hit-and-run and ope
  
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• Sid Edwards names reserve Central Police officer, retired naval officer as chief of staff

  06-01-2025 13:54 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE — On the first Monday of his tenure as mayor-president, Sid Edwards named Lon Vicknair as his chief of staff.Vicknair, 43, is a retired naval officer and most recently served as a senior commercial manager for PSC Group managing logistic and sustainability operations in multiple chemical facilities in Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee and California.Vicknair, a Baton Rouge native, also volunteers as a reserve police officer in Central and as president of the Central Veterans Mem
  
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• Flags flying at half-staff in honor of Episcopal alum who died in New Orleans attack

  06-01-2025 13:42 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE — Flags will fly at half-staff on Monday in remembrance of one of the Baton Rouge native victims of the New Orleans attack that killed 14 people when a man drove a truck through Bourbon Street on New Year's Day.Gov. Jeff Landry said on social media that flags will fly at half-staff to honor Kareem Badawi, an alumni of Episcopal who was laid to rest on Friday. Badawi's classmate, Parker Vidrine, was critically injured in the attack.Another Baton Rouge man, 37-year-old Reggi
  
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• Deputies: 78-year-old woman killed in weekend crash likely caused by medical episode

  06-01-2025 13:39 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE — A 78-year-old woman was killed in a what was likely a medical episode-induced crash over the weekend on Pride-Baywood Road, East Baton Rouge Parish deputies said. Alice Hamilton was pronounced dead at the scene at 10 p.m. on Sunday.Deputies said Hamilton's vehicle was travelling west on Pride-Baywood Road. The car then drove off the road near Hall Road and into a ditch. The car then struck a culvert and came to an abrupt stop.Deputies said the woman likely suffe
  
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• Mississippi man arrested after traveling to Hammond to meet with minor

  06-01-2025 13:06 via wbrz.com
  
  HAMMOND - Police arrested a man from Picayune, Mississippi after he traveled to Hammond to meet who he assumed to be a minor he was having inappropriate conversations with. John Mitchell, 19, was arrested Saturday by the Hammond Police Department. The HPD said Mitchell had explicit sexual conversations with someone he believed to be a minor for several days prior to his arrest. When Mitchell arrived to Hammond to meet with the person he was talking to, he was met with HPD dete
  
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• LSU fans don sequins, blonde wigs to celebrate 'Dress Like Kim Mulkey Day' during Auburn win

  06-01-2025 12:35 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE — LSU fans donned their best sequins and blonde wigs to celebrate LSU's iconic women's basketball coach on "Dress Like Kim Mulkey Day" during a win against Auburn over the weekend.Men, women and children wore sparkly purple and gold blazers, boas and other flamboyant outfits fit for the national championship-winning coach at Sunday's 73-63 win over the Auburn Tigers. Fans were highlighted during the SEC Network's broadcast of the game."Anything to bring people to
  
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• Visitation for former President Jimmy Carter begins after six-day state funeral

  06-01-2025 12:30 via wbrz.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter's extended public farewell began Saturday in Georgia, with the 39th U.S. president’s flag-draped casket tracing his long arc from the Depression-era South and family farming business to the pinnacle of American political power and decades as a global humanitarian.Those chapters shone throughout the opening stanza of a six-day state funeral intended to blend personalized memorials with the ceremonial pomp afforded to former presidents. The longest-
  
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• Postwar epic 'The Brutalist,' trans musical Emilia Perez, Demi Moore win awards at Golden Globes

  06-01-2025 11:28 via wbrz.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two wildly audacious films — Brady Corbet’s 215-minute postwar epic “The Brutalist” and Jacques Audiard’s Spanish language, genre-shifting trans musical “Emilia Perez” — won top honors at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday.Some highlights:– Demi Moore, in a surprise, wins her first Globe
  – Sebastian Stan wins, but not for playing Donald Trump
  – “Shog
  
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• ExxonMobil says pressure valve pop may have been heard off-site Monday; no emergency declared

  06-01-2025 11:26 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE — ExxonMobil's plastics plant in Baton Rouge had an "operational issue" in one of its units Monday, resulting in a loud noise that its neighbors may have heard.The company said there was no emergency and that safety systems worked appropriately. Air quality was not impacted, it said."The unit safety devices were activated, as designed, and relieved pressure on the unit. The relief of the pressure caused a loud noise that may have been heard by surrounding neighbors," Exxon
  
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• ExxonMobil responds after "loud noise" heard from Baton Rouge plant

  06-01-2025 11:26 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE — ExxonMobil's plastics plant in Baton Rouge had an "operational issue" in one of its units Monday, resulting in a loud noise that its neighbors may have heard.The company said there was no emergency and that safety systems worked appropriately. Air quality was not impacted, it said."The unit safety devices were activated, as designed, and relieved pressure on the unit. The relief of the pressure caused a loud noise that may have been heard by surrounding neighbors," Exxon
  
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• What to know about the Meta glasses the New Orleans attacker used to scout the French Quarter

  06-01-2025 09:40 via wbrz.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The man who drove a truck into a crowd of people in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, killing 14, had previously scouted the French Quarter and recorded video with his Meta smart glasses, the FBI said.On Oct. 31, Shamsud-Din Jabbar recorded video with the glasses as he cycled through the French Quarter and plotted the attack, said Lyonel Myrthil, FBI special agent in charge of the New Orleans field office. Jabbar also wore the glasses, which are capable of lives
  
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• Biden issues ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in most federal waters as Trump vows to undo it

  06-01-2025 09:36 via wbrz.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling.Biden, whose term expires in two weeks, said he is using authority under the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect offshore areas along the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea f
  
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• Falling tree hit moving Jeep, sent it off the road; Zachary man dead in crash

  06-01-2025 08:45 via wbrz.com
  
  ST. FRANCISVILLE - A man is dead after a falling tree hit his moving vehicle and set him off the roadway to crash into several other trees.Louisiana State Police said Jaime Hernandez, 50, of Zachary was driving his Jeep on LA 965 in West Feliciana Parish Sunday afternoon around 3:30 p.m.. Troopers said a piece of a falling tree hit a part of the Jeep and caused Hernandez to run off the roadway and strike several other trees. Hernandez was seriously injured and died on the scene.&nb
  
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• Falling tree hit moving Jeep, sent it off the road; Zachary chef dead in crash

  06-01-2025 08:45 via wbrz.com
  
  ST. FRANCISVILLE - A Zachary chef is dead after a falling tree hit his moving vehicle and set him off the roadway to crash into several other trees.Louisiana State Police said Jaime Hernandez, 50, of Zachary was driving his Jeep on La. 965 in West Feliciana Parish on Sunday afternoon around 3:30 p.m.. Troopers said a piece of a falling tree hit a part of the Jeep and caused Hernandez to run off the roadway and strike several other trees. Hernandez, a chef at the St. Francisville Inn, w
  
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• Mayor Sid Edwards addresses BRPD cadets at police headquarters on first Monday morning in office

  06-01-2025 08:26 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE - Mayor-President Sid Edwards addressed Baton Rouge Police cadets starting basic training Monday morning. Monday marked the start of the 93rd Basic Training Academy for the Baton Rouge Police Department. Police Chief T.J. Morse as well as newly-inaugurated Mayor-President Sid Edwards addressed the new class. Twelve recruits were welcomed to training with a message from Edwards. ""You've got almost half a million citizens, and there's a dozen people in ther
  
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• One dead after fatal crash off Rieger Road early Monday morning

  06-01-2025 06:25 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE - One person is dead after a reported crash off Siegen Lane early Monday morning. The crash happened around 6 a.m. Monday, and involved a motorcycle and a car. It was not immediately clear whether the victim was on the motorcycle or in the car. WBRZ has a crew on the way to the scene. This is a developing story. Permalink| Comments
  
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• Motorcycle driver dead after fatal crash off Rieger Road early Monday morning

  06-01-2025 06:25 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE - One person is dead after a crash off Rieger Road early Monday morning. The crash happened around 6 a.m. Monday on Exchequer Drive and involved a motorcycle and a car. Deputies said that the car was turning into a driveway when it struck a motorcycle driving north.The motorcycle driver, 38-year-old Anthony Chandler, was pronounced dead at the scene.Permalink| Comments
  
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• DEMCO offers energy saving tips as cold weather blasts Louisiana

  06-01-2025 06:18 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE - With a powerful cold front coming into Louisiana this week and sending nighttime wind chills into the teens, DEMCO is offering its customers and Louisiana residents some energy saving tips to help cut costs. The company recommends not setting your thermostat any higher than 68 degrees and wearing warm clothes inside to reduce reliance on heating systems. Unplug any devices that aren't being actively used to reduce energy costs. Additionally, run heavy appliances, such as
  
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• Kids get free back-to-school haircuts ahead of their second semester

  05-01-2025 20:36 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE — Several boys in Baton Rouge received free haircuts Sunday afternoon at the Charles R. Kelly Community Center.Kids received the haircuts right before heading back to school for the second semester. Javontezz Spriggs is one of the recipients and he said he's ready to make a good first impression."I feel like I'm going to be handsome on the first day of school," Spriggs said.Jace Morrison is another recipient. He said he wants everyone to feel good about going back to schoo
  
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• Livingston Parish hit-and-run suspect in custody

  05-01-2025 19:55 via wbrz.com
  
  HOLDEN - A man allegedly connected to a hit-and-run crash that injured a bicyclist Sunday night has been taken into custody.The Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office said the hit-and-run crash happened near the corner of George White Road and Lake Ora Drive in Holden. A driver ran into a bicyclist and left them on the side of the road. The victim was taken to a hospital, their condition is unknown. Anyone with information about the crash can call (225) 686-2241.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Livingston deputies investigating hit-and-run crash that left bicyclist injured

  05-01-2025 19:55 via wbrz.com
  
  HOLDEN - Deputies in Livingston Parish are looking for a driver who ran into a bicyclist and left them on the side of the road Sunday night.The Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office said the hit-and-run crash happened near the corner of George White Road and Lake Ora Drive in Holden.The victim was taken to a hospital, their condition is unknown. Anyone with information about the crash can call (225) 686-2241.Permalink| Comments
  
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• Denham Springs Animal Shelter seeks emergency fosters to protect dogs from freezing temperatures

  05-01-2025 16:00 via wbrz.com
  
  DENHAM SPRINGS - The Denham Springs Animal Shelter is looking for emergency fosters ahead of this week's freezing temperatures.Storm Station meteorologists say our area will experience freezing temperatures in the coming days. The Denham Springs Animal Shelter needs emergency foster homes to take in around 60 to 70 dogs they have kept outside.Due to limited space, director Rachel Boutwell said they can only put a handful of the dogs inside."During the cold weather that is severe and freezing we
  
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• One dead after head-on crash in Tangipahoa Parish

  05-01-2025 15:08 via wbrz.com
  
  AMITE — A man was killed and four people were hurt in a head-on crash along Highway 16 between Amite and Franklinton on Saturday. State Police said 60-year-old Roderick E. Brumfield of Franklinton was driving eastbound on Highway 16 near Dummyline Road. At the same time, a vehicle with four passengers was traveling westbound. Troopers said Brumfield crossed the center and hit the other vehicle head-on.Brumfield died at the scene. The other driver and three children in the veh
  
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• Shamsud-Din Jabbar traveled to New Orleans twice before Bourbon Street attack, FBI says

  05-01-2025 11:45 via wbrz.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS — The FBI announced in a press conference Sunday, that the Bourbon Street attacker, who killed 14 people, traveled to New Orleans twice months before the attack as well as Egypt, Canada and a Texas gun store. An FBI official said Shamsud-Din Jabbar traveled to Cairo, Egypt in the summer of 2023 and to Ontario, Canada shortly after. He made at least two trips to New Orleans in the months before the attack, once in October and once in November. In October o
  
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