Friday 30th July, 2010
Saints Ink Top Draft Pick As Training Camp Begins
More The New Orleans Saints have signed their first-round draft choice.Saints spokesman Greg Bensel said Patrick Robinson has agreed to a five-year contract and is expected to report for training ca...
Suspect Arrested In Thursday Morning Shootings
Detectives arrested a 26-year-old man in connection with a Thursday morning shooting that killed one person and injured two others.New Orleans homicide detectives found Emmanuel Summers, 25, at Univer...
T-Shirts Help Replant and Restore Coastal Louisiana
Cypress Tees, LLC joined forces with America's WETLAND Foundation’s Conservation Corps to help with Louisiana’s oil-damaged marshes. By donating 30% of the proceeds from the sale of all ‘Bird of...
2 US Embassy workers in Paris undergo medical tests after opening suspicious letter
ABC 26PARIS (AP) — Two men who work for the U.S. Embassy in Paris underwent medical tests after handling a suspicious letter Friday, but the embassy said preliminary analysis suggested it was not harm...
Czech PM: US want to place missile defense warning center in Czech Republic
ABC 26PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech prime minister said Friday his government has been negotiating a plan with the United States to place a warning center in the Czech Republic as part of a reworked U.S. mi...
Berlusconi ousts long-time ally, vows his government will carry on
ABC 26ROME (AP) — After months of squabbling, Premier Silvio Berlusconi has declared a split from a long-time ally and co-founder of the governing political alliance but vowed his government is stable...
Report: Cigarettes tainted with pig blood, nuke material smuggled into Iran in Western plot
ABC 26TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian official says cigarettes smuggled into Iran have been tainted with pig blood and nuclear material as part of a Western conspiracy.
Former Swedish police chief given 6.5 years in prison for rape and sex crimes
ABC 26The Sodertorn District Court on Friday convicted Goran Lindberg of more than a dozen sex offenses, including buying sexual favors. The 64-year-old former police commissioner has denied all charges asi...
Russia's Putin visits village destroyed by forest fires that have killed at least 7
ABC 26MOSCOW (AP) — Forest fires continue to rage around several Russian cities and officials say at least seven people have died, including two firefighters.
Former Jefferson Co. official sentenced
Montgomery AdvertiserTUSCALOOSA -- Former Jefferson County Commissioner Gary White was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday on conspiracy and bribery convictions for his role in the county's sewer construction scandal...
Saudi and Syrian leaders to visit Beirut amid rising tension between rival Lebanese factions
ABC 26BEIRUT (AP) — The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia were heading to Beirut on Friday to help defuse a simmering crisis over expected indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prim...
Crews fight damage from abandoned leaking well off Louisiana
CNNNew Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- An abandoned well struck by a barge in southeastern Louisiana early Tuesday is still spewing a mixture of oil, gas and water, and it could take 10 days before it is cap...
Fugitive couple wanted in death of American woman deported back to Panama
ABC 26Detainees identified by Nicaraguan authorities as William Adolfo Cortez, left, of Texas, and his wife Jane Cortez, right behind the police officer, are escorted by Nicaraguan and Panamanian police age...
Cupboard Bare At Algiers Food Pantry
WDSUFor the first time in more than 40 years, an Algiers food pantry is running empty.State budget cuts and increased demand have left the cupboard bare.The director of the United Churches of Algiers said...
Officials say Jefferson County school will be under cost
Knox NewsSheila Kidwell, left, registrar at Jefferson County High School, talks with new student Seth Self, right during registration on Thursday. Steva Parkey, back right, and her son Aaron Buckner, back left...
Vessels of Opportunity Program's future
Fox 8Darrel Frickey has been working with the 'Vessels of Opportunity' program for eight weeks and everyday he waits for the phone to ring.That call has not come for two weeks now and Frickey worries when ...
NOPD takes crime walks to engage residents
Fox 8In an effort to rebuild its image, the New Orleans Police Department got very public Thursday, with neighborhood walks in all of the city's eight districts.Those crime walks though happened on the hee...
Lee Zurik Investigation: Public Belt employees expenses go unchecked
Fox 8A FOX 8 investigation uncovered questionable spending of public money by New Orleans Public Belt General Manager Jim Bridger. A 2009 budget estimate from the publicly owned NOPB shows how the public g...
Progress, but no victory in Plaquemines fight against oil
Fox 8Stems of marsh grass, stained with oil, Barataria Basin-- July 29, 2010 (John Snell) St. Mary's Point, Plaquemines Parish-- In Barataria Bay, necessity has inspired a little ingenuity. Where there h...
Louisiana Reopens Some Fishing Areas After FDA Confirms Safety
Business WeekJuly 30 (Bloomberg) -- Louisiana reopened some commercial fishing areas that were closed due to BP Plc’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to an e-mailed statement from the office of Lo...
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