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Suspect named in New Orleans mass shooting
Police late Monday identified a 19-year-old man as a suspect in the shooting of about 20 people during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, saying several people had identified him as the gunman captured by surveillance camera videos. Superintendent...
Tags: Broken Arm, Mother's Day, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Juvenile Delinquency
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2 brothers held in New Orleans parade shooting
A pair of brothers have been charged with attempting to murder 20 people during a shooting spree at a parade on Mothers Day in New Orleans, and four other people have been arrested for allegedly harboring the fugitives during an intense manhunt, officials...
Tags: Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder, Shootings, Prosecution
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Suspect arrested in New Orleans parade shooting
NEW ORLEANS --Â The suspect in a Mother's Day parade shooting that left 19 people wounded in New Orleans was taken into custody Wednesday night, police said. Akein Scott, 19, was arrested in the Little Woods section of eastern New Orleans, police...
Tags: Festive Events, Police Arrests, Trials, Juvenile Delinquency, Martin Luther King Day
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173-year-old family-run New Orleans restaurant may lose a daughter
NEW ORLEANS — She grew up crawling around the dining room of her family's French Quarter restaurant, lost under crisp white tablecloths stamped with fleurs-de-lis and smoke drifting from gentlemen's cigars, a towheaded child nicknamed "The Wildness....
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Rentals, Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking
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Passengers tell tales of joy, woe as crippled cruise ship returns
MOBILE, Ala. – The first real glimpse of what life has been like for those stranded aboard a Carnival cruise ship adrift in the Gulf of Mexico came late Thursday as passengers began to disembark at the port in Mobile, a process that stretched into...
Tags: Festive Events, Cruise Line Ports, Arts and Culture
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Mardi Gras 2013 shifts into high gear with Fat Tuesday in New Orleans
FrameworkOvercast skies and the threat of rain couldn't dampen the revelry of Mardi Gras in New Orleans as parades took to the streets Tuesday, showering costumed merrymakers with trinkets of all kinds. The parades began around dawn, led by clarinetist Pete... -
Twister rakes Hattiesburg, University of Southern Mississippi
A tornado touched down in a southern Mississippi college town Sunday evening, officials said, inflicting "significant damage" and injuring at least 10 people. "We do have significant damage throughout the city,” Kyle Hopkins, emergency...
Tags: Suffolk County (New York), Tornadoes, University of Southern Mississippi, Natural Disasters, Colleges and Universities
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It's almost Mardi Gras! Got king cake?
Mardi Gras is next Tuesday -- got your king cake? At first sight, it may come across as, well, a little unusual. A large wreath-shaped cake bedazzled in vibrant shades of purple, green and gold — there's nothing subtle about it. It might be...
Tags: Butter, Mexico, Lent, Apples, Ash Wednesday
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Super Bowl outage traced to device used to prevent power outage
The Superdome folks might want to get their money back on this one. An electrical device whose sole purpose was to prevent a power outage caused the Super Bowl blackout, the stadium's power company said Friday. Officials of Entergy New Orleans said...
Tags: Electronics, Chicago Bears, Louisiana State University, Sports, Football
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Las Vegas: It's Mardi Gras daily at Rio, but Feb. 12 is special
It’s Mardi Gras every day inside the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, but on Fat Tuesday -- Feb. 12 -- a variety of Vegas headliners will join the regular cast of colorfully costumed characters in the Show in the Sky, the resort’s nightly free...
Tags: The Amazing Race (tv program)
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Super Nola: Insider's tour of New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — One thing you can say about New Orleanians: They know how to punt. When the date for Sunday's Super Bowl XLVII was set, there could have been a loud gasp: It was scheduled right in the middle of the city's hectic Carnival season....
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Museums, Sandra Bullock, Sandwiches, Restaurants
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Black truffles at Patina, Karneval at Wirsthaus, a Julia Child talk
Patina’s black truffle dinners are back: Downtown L.A.’s Patina will be offering three-, five- and seven-course tasting menus during the restaurant’s annual black truffle dinner series today through Friday. This year’s menu will...
Tags: Patina, Black Truffles, Julia Child, Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurants
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