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Graduates continue positive work in negative community
The 11 graduates have already made a stamp in the cultural community, but now they begin again with new found power. As graduates from a distance learning program they now have and a college degree to aid in their progress. These graduates move to the beat of their own drum, and their graduation ceremony isn't any different. A commencement address by Ashe College Unbound coordinator Adam ...
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Boom first sign of problem on I-5 bridge
The first sign for a truck driver that something was wrong on a bridge on Interstate 5 that collapsed into Washington's Skagit River was the sound of a "boom," a federal investigator said ...
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Jefferson dominant as ever beating Union 3-0 to claim state crown | 4A Boys Soccer
PUYALLUP — The pressure was there, but the Jefferson boys soccer team just played and played, unfazed by expectations. Many expected the Raiders to win the Class 4A state title. Still, they had to deliver. And deliver they did. Senior midfielder Matthew Cruz supplied a goal and an assist as Jefferson rode a wave of big-time talent to a 3-0 demolition of Union of Vancouver in the Class ...
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Ponchatoula police Victim of Thursday night shooting dies
New York's infamous "Hot Dog Hooker" allegedly tried to serve up the full works to one customer, but she didn't know the customer was an undercover detective and is now facing a prostitution case, police ...
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Tuskegee Airmen Exhibit honors courageous African-American pilots
They didn't receive the recognition they deserved back in World War II, but today hundreds gathered to honor the extraordinary story of the Tuskegee ...
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Offsides Blog The Pelicans Will Make The Playoffs This Season If...
In my first column aimed at helping the Pelicans take flight, I built a team the New Orleans Saints would be proud of - a fast-paced group focused on ...
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State program offering online courses being scaled back
The Louisiana Senate has killed a resolution that sought to keep the state from using a set of uniform national standards for public school testing, called Common Core ...
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Police Unrestrained Patterson woman dies in one-car morning crash
Johnson was transported to Thibodaux Hospital with minor injuries, but Vazquez was pronounced dead on the scene after being thrown forward into the windshield during the crash, police ...
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Hurricane Isaac debris program ending in Plaquemines Parish
After Monday, parish crews will pick up only debris placed on rights-of-way by residents. Construction companies and others will be responsible for removing their own ...
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Flooding kills 1 in San Antonio Texas
Flood levels on the San Antonio River reached a new record at Loop 410, when water rose to 34.2 feet at 10 a.m. Saturday, said the National Weather Service. The previous record was 32.57 feet on October 17, 1998, the agency ...
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5000 criminals getting away with murder in New Orleans
This past week has been a particularly violent one in New Orleans. A criminal court judge was carjacked; a couple was brutally assaulted in the heart of the Central Business District. Of course, there was another shootout on the Interstate. It marks the third time in the last few weeks there has been a gun battle on the congested roadway. If a commuter can make it to his car unharmed, then drive ...
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Texas Brine offers settlements for Assumption Parish sinkhole
Texas Brine says it has started extending settlement offers to Assumption Parish residents who have been under an evacuation order since August because of a 15-acre ...
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Court filing New jail in New Orleans wont fix old problems
Inmates' lawyers and the U.S. Justice Department say the current design of a $145 million jail under construction in New Orleans won't meet requirements of a reform agreement signed by Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin ...
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“The First 48″ to follow New Orleans Police homicide detectives
New Orleans Police Department detectives will soon be in your living room on A&E’s documentary style television show ';The First 48.'; They will be filming detectives as they solve murders in New Orleans for the next year. Episodes of ';The First 48″ with our homicide detectives will most likely begin to air late this ...
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Oklahoma principals recall day tornado hit
It was like any other day. If anything, it might have been a little better than usual -- with more deserved honors for the kids, more jokes and songs, more smiles. Even Mother Nature, after storms the previous day, seemed at first to cooperate as the sun shone ...
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Hosli reinstated at NOPD Others shifted
A New Orleans Police Department commander at the center of a controversial detail operation has been reinstated in full at the department, officials announced late ...
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Donations for Oklahoma top $20 million
The Red Cross has received more than $15 million in donations and pledges so far for the town of Moore, which was struck by a tornado Monday that killed 24, injured more than 300 and destroyed thousands of ...
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New Orleans under threat from misconceptions
Looking toward the end of the year and 2011, there are two major challenges facing the city of New Orleans, the misconception created by the oil spill and the massive budget deficit that needs to be filled at a time when the city is still recovering from the devastation of Katrina in 2005.
New Orleans is a city famous for many things, as the setting of A Streetcar Named Desire, as the host city of the famous Mardi Gras, which is one of the most visited events in America, as a major hub for jazz and blues musicians and as the most celebrated city of the American South. Read more
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